Description
Stowey, a parish in Somerset, l 1/4 mile from Glutton station on the G.W.R. Post town, Clutton, under Bristol; money order and telegraph office, Bishops Sutton, Somerset. Acreage, 1269; population, 183. Sutton Court, the seat of the Strachey family, is in the parish. The living is a rectory or discharged vicarage, held with Bishops Sutton, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £160 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is dedicated to St Nicholas and St Mary.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
