Description
Halse, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands 2 miles SW of Bishops Lydeard station on the G.W.R., and 6 1/2 WNW of Taunton. It has a post office under Bishops Lydeard; money order and telegraph office, Bishops Lydeard. Acreage of the civil parish, 1320; population, 361; of the ecclesiastical, 352. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £170 with residence. The church consists of nave, S aisle, and chancel, with porch and tower, has a Norman font, and is good. There is a small chapel for Bible Christians.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
