Description
Orchard Portman, a parish in Somerset, 2 miles SSE of Taunton station on the G.W.R. Post town, Taunton. Acreage, 683; population of the civil parish, 56; of the ecclesiastical, with Thurlbeere and Stoke St Mary, 428. The property, with Orchard Portman House, belongs to Viscount Portman, who is lord of the manor. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells, with the donatives of Thurlbeere and Stoke annexed; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, Viscount Portman. The church is partly Norman and partly Perpendicular, in good condition, and consists of nave and chancel, with porch and tower, with four bells.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
