Description
Camel, West, a parish in Somerset, on the river Yeo, 2 miles NW of Marston station on the G.W.R., and 4 ENE of Ilchester. It includes the hamlets of Downhead and Urgashay. It has a post and money order office under Taunton; telegraph office, Queen Camel. Acreage, 1993 ; population, 231. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £243 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
