Bishops Lydeard, Somerset

Description
Bishops-Lydeard, a village and a parish in Somersetshire. The village stands near the Quantock Hills, 5 miles NNW of Taunton, and has a station on the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (R.S.O.) The parish includes the tithings of Lydeard-Punchardon, Town, Church, East Bagborough, Quantock Hill, East Coombe, Cames-Ash, Ash-Week, and Free, and the hamlet of Kenley-Bottom. Acreage, 4832; population of the civil parish, 1105 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1093. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells: value, £253. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The church has a very beautiful tower in Perpendicular English, of the time of Henry VII., and was repaired in 1860. There are two sculptured crosses in the churchyard, a Congregational chapel, a petty sessions court-house, ten almshouses with £230 a year, and some other charities. Sandhill Park is a fine seat in the vicinity.