Description
Wembdon, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 1 1/2 mile WNW of Bridgwater station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Bridgwater; telegraph office, Bridgwater. Acreage, 2470; population of the civil parish, 1193; of the ecclesiastical, 1293. There are a brewery and a stone quarry. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £400. The church was almost entirely destroyed by fire in 1868, but was rebuilt in 1870, and is a building of stone in the Early English style, with an embattled tower. The parish forms a suburb to Bridgwater, and contains some good villa residences.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
