Description

Babcary, a parish in Somerset, near the river Parret, 3 miles from Sparkford station on the G.W.R. It includes the hamlets of Foddington and Stert, and its post town is Somerton, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2412; population, 336. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, ?324 with residence. The church is good, and was restored in 1876. There is a Wesleyan chapel.