Carhampton, Hampshire

Description
Carhampton, a village, a parish, and a hundred in Somerset. The village stands near the coast, 1 1/2 mile ESE of Dunster, and 1 from Blue Anchor station on the West Somerset and Minehead branch of the G.W.R. It dates from ancient times under the name of Carumtune, and has a post office under Taunton; money order and telegraph office, Dunster. The surface of the parish is diversified with glen and hill. Acreage, 2788; population of the civil parish, 405; of the ecclesiastical, 612. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £280 with residence. The church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, is ancient, interesting, and good, and contains a screen. The tower was rebuilt in 1872, and contains a peal of six bells. Rodhuish, a detached part of this parish, was amalgamated for civil purposes only with Withycombe in 1884. In the NE corner of the parish is an old manor-house called Marshwood, formerly the residence of the Luttrell family, and in the W is Knowle House, formerly belonging to the Battersby family.