Cothelstone, Somerset

Description
Cothelstone, a parish in Somerset, among the Quantock Hills, 2 miles NE of Bishops-Lydeard station on the G.W.R., and 6^ NNW of Taunton. Post town, Bishops-Lydeard, under Taunton; money order and telegraph office, Bishops-Lydeard. Acreage, 1455; population, 216. Cothelstone House is the seat of the Esdaile family. Cothelstone old manor-house, now a farmhouse, is an ivy-clad edifice in a singular style of architecture, with series of pillars decorating the front, and forming large oblong windows, and has the 1 arms of Stawel over the doorway. Cothelstone Hill is 1250 feet high, and commands a very extensive view. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £230. The church contains some ancient monuments, and is good.