Description
Brent, South, or Brent-Knoll, a village and a parish in Somersetshire. the village stands under Brent-Knoll, 1 mile from Brent-Knoll station on the G.W.R., and 7 1/2 miles SW of Axbridge. It has a post and money order office wider Highbridge (R.S.O.); telegraph office, East Brent. The parish includes also the liamlet of Wick. Acreage, 8339; population of the civil parish, 770; of the ecclesiastical, 789. The manor belonged formerly to the abbots of Glastonbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath .and Wells; gross value, £545 with residence. Patron, the Archdeacon of Wells. The church is partly Norman, and contains a large monument, to a Somerset of 1G63. There is a Bible Christian chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
