Stanton Drew, Somerset

Description
Stanton Drew, a parish, with three tithings, in Somerset, under Dundry Beacon, and 1 1/2 mile from Pensford station on the G.W.R., and 7 miles S by W of Bristol. It has a post office under Bristol; money order and telegraph office, Pensford. Acreage, 2078; population, 690. Belluton House belonged once to the father of the philosopher Locke. Numerous remarkable antiquities of the kind called Druidical are near the church and in another locality, and gave rise to the suffix-name, Drew. The living is a vicarage, united with Pensford, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Bath. The church was thoroughly restored in 1889, and contains some interesting monuments. There is a Wesleyan chapel.