Description
Buckland, West, a parish in Somersetshire, under Blackdown Hill, near the Bristol and Exeter railway, 2 1/2 miles E of Wellington. It has a post office under Wellington, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 3697; population, 785. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Wellington, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1863.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
