Enmore, Somerset

Description
Enmore, a parish in Somerset, under the Quantock Hills, on the river Parret, 4 miles WSW of Bridgwater town and station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Bridgwater; telegraph office, Bridgwater. Acreage, 1426; population of the civil parish, 285; of the ecclesiastical, 275. The manor belonged at the Conquest to the Courcelles, passed to the Mallets, the Bayntus, and others, and came to the Percevals, Earls of Egmont, and is now-owned by the Broadmead family. The mansion on it, called Enmore Park, was built by the first Earl of Egmont, and is a large quadrangular embattled pile, constructed of a dark reddish-coloured stone, flanked at each angle by a low square machicolated tower, with a bastion and two circular towers at the principal entrance; it is now called Enmore Park. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £156 with residence. The church adjoins the castle, has an Anglo-Norman doorway, and is good; it was restored in 1873. The churchyard contains old yew trees, and the steps and shaft of an ancient cross.