Description
Dinder, a parish in Somerset, 2 miles E of Wells station on the G.W. and Somerset and Dorset railways. Post town, and money order and telegraph office, Wells. Acreage, 1080 ; population, 240. The manor belongs to the Somerville family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells ; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church consists of nave, chancel, and north aisle, with porch and square tower, and contains a fine Jacobean stone pulpit of date 1621, and monuments of the Somervilles and others. It was well restored in 1872.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
