Description
Shapwick, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands under Polden Hill, with a station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, 136 miles from London, and 5 1/2 W by S of Glastonbury. It has a post and money order office under Bridgwater; telegraph office at railway station. Acreage of the civil parish, 3567; population, 352; of the ecclesiastical, 1008, There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage, united with Ashcott, in the diocese of Bath and Wells; net value, £280 with residence. The church is a stone building of 13th century date in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
