Description
Isle or lie Brewers, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, on the river lie, adjacent to Isle Abbots, 5 miles from Hatch station on the Chard branch of the G.W.R. Post town, Taunton; money order and telegraph office, Hambridge. Acreage, 1356; population of the civil parish, 290; of the ecclesiastical, 200. In 1885 portions of North and South Bradon were incorporated with this parish, which is principally pastoral and agricultural. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Prince of Wales. The church was rebuilt in 1861, is in the Gothic style, and comprises nave, chancel, and S porch, with tower and spire with four bells. Dr Joseph Wolff was vicar.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
