Description
Bagborough, West, a parish in Somerset, on the S side of the Quantock Hills, 3 miles from Bishops-Lydeard station on the G.W.R., and 8 NW of Taunton. It has a post office, of the name of Bagborough, under Bishops-Lydeard, the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2006; population, 400. Bagborough House is the seat of the Popham family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £430 with residence. The church is good. It was restored and a chancel aisle added in 1873-74 at a cost of £2000.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
