Priddy, Somerset

Description
Priddy, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, on the top of the Mendip Hills, 4 miles from Westbury or Lodge Hill station on the Cheddar Valley branch of the G.W.R. There is a post office under Wells; money order and telegraph office, Wells. Acreage, 1375; population of the civil parish, 199 ; of the ecclesiastical, 406. There is a Roman camp. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £290 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is an ancient building of stone in the Early English style, and contains some slabs to the Hopkins family; the building was restored at considerable expense in 1883. There is an old building known as the " Round House," and once used as a farmhouse. A fair is held on 21 Aug.