Description
Bathealton, a parish in Somerset, 4 miles from Milverton station on the G.W.R., and 6 from Wellington. Acreage, 946; population, 123. There is a post office under Wiveliscombe (R.S.O.), which is the money order and telegraph office. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells ; net value, £215. The church was rebuilt about 50 years ago, and is very good. Some remains of an old British camp are on a hill in the parish. Sharp's charity is distributed to needy inhabitants each year in the church porch on Candlemas Day. Bathealton Court is the chief residence.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
