Description
Brompton-Regis, a village and a parish in Somersetshire. The village stands near the river Exe, 4 1/2 miles NE of Dul-verton station on the G.W.R., and has a post office under Dulverton (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. It was once a market-town. The parish comprises 9029 acres; population, 682. A priory of Black canons was founded at Barlinch in the time of Henry II. by William de Lay. Building stone abounds. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £286 with residence. Patron, Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The church was restored in 1887. There are Congregational and Bible Christian chapels.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
