Description
Seavington St Michael, a parish, with a village, in Somerset, 3 1/2 miles W of Ilminster station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Ilminster; money order and telegraph office, South Petherton. Acreage, 286; population of the civil parish, 176; of the ecclesiastical, 313. The manor belongs to Winchester college. The living is a rectory, united with Dinnington, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £320 with residence. Patron, Earl Powlett. The church is old but good.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
