Description
Perrott, South, a parish, with a village, in Dorsetshire, on the river Parret, near its source, and adjacent to Somerset, 1 1/2 mile SE of Crewkerne station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Crewkerne; telegraph office, Crewkerne railway station. Acreage, 1488; population of the civil parish, 250; of the ecclesiastical, 513. A Roman settlement is supposed to have been on the site of the village, and Roman coins have been found. The living is a consolidated rectory, united with the chapelry of Mosterton, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £320 with residence. The church is ancient.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
