Description
Weston Zoyland, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 3 1/2 miles ESE of Bridgwater station on the G.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Bridgwater; telegraph office, Bridgwater. Acreage, including Langhay, 3320; population of the civil parish, 659; of the ecclesiastical, 636. There is a parish council consisting of five members. Fairs for cattle and horses are held on 9 Sept The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is ancient but good, and has a very fine Later English tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel. The battle of Sedgemoor took place on the confines of this and the adjoining parish of Chedzoy in 1685.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
