Description
Load, Long, a tithing and a chapelry in Martock parish, Somerset. The tithing lies between the rivers Parret and Yeo, 3 miles from Martock station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Langport; telegraph office, Martock. Population of ecclesiastical district, 376. The cliiipelry does not seem to have defined limits. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells ; net value,. £250 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Martock. The church is good. A Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1885.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
