Butleigh, Somerset

Description
Butleigh, a parish in Somersetshire, on the river Brue, 4 miles SSE of Glastonbury station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It includes the hamlet of Butleigh-Wootton. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Glastonbnry. Acreage, 3928; population of the civil parish, 772; of the ecclesiastical with Baltonsborough, 1500. Butleigh Hill is prominent, and blue lias is found. Sir George Bowles's Hospital, a large stone building with residence for surgeon, was erected in 1882 at a cost of about £5000. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Baltonsborough, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £423 with residence. The church is decorated English, and was restored in 1851, and enlarged in 1859. A Wesleyan chapel was built in 1883.