Description
Baltonsborough, a parish in Somerset, on the river Brue, 4 miles from West Pennard station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. It includes the hamlet of Southwood. Acreage, 2720; population, 718. Glastonbury is the post town. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Butleigh, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; joint value, £423. The church is Later English, and was restored in 1875. There are Wesleyan and Moravian chapels, and two schools.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
