Description
Camel, Queen, a village and a parish in Somersetshire. The village stands near the river Yeo, on an affluent of that river, 1 mile SW of Sparkford station on the G.W.R., and 6 miles ENE of Ilchester. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bath. Acreage of parish, 2303; population, 502. A sulphurous spring of some note is half a mile to the west. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells ; value, £200 with residence. The church is very good, and was restored by Pearson in 1887 at a cost of £3000.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
