Description
Camerton, a parish in Somersetshire, on the Fosse Way, and on the G.W.R., 123 miles from London. The parish includes part of Carlingcott hamlet. It has a post office under Bath; money order and telegraph office, Timsbury. Acreage, 1782; population of the civil parish, 1877; of the ecclesiastical, 866. Camerton Park is the seat of the Jarrett family. Coal is worked. Roman pottery, glass, and other relics, and remains of Roman villas have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £393 with residence. The church was restored and a new chancel built in 1891-92. It contains several very fine tombs of the Carews. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
