Description
Corton Denham, a parish in Somerset, 3 miles from Sparkford station on the G.W.R., and 4 N of Sherbome. Post town, Sherborne, which is the money order office ; telegraph office, Rimpton. Acreage, 1392 ; population, 303. Roman coins have been found. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £330 with residence. Patron, Lord Portman. The church was built in 1870 in the Early English style, and is good. There is a Wesleyan, chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
