South Cadbury, Somerset

Description
Cadbury, South, a parish in Somersetshire, 2 miles E of Sparkford station on the G.W.R., and 6 WSW of Wincanton. It has a post office under Bath; money order office, North Cadbury; telegraph office, Sparkford. Acreage, 695; population, 159. Cadbury Castle, situated on the northern extremity of a ridge of hills, and anciently called Camelot, is thought to have been a Roman station, and probably was the Cathbrigion where Arthur routed the Saxons in a great battle; has yielded weapons, articles of camp equipage, a silver horse shoe, and many Roman coins; comprises four concentric deep ditches and as many massive ramparts, enclosing an area of about 20 acres; and has in the centre a moated mound, called King Arthur's Palace, in the fourth ditch a spring called King Arthur's Well, and on the north side another called Queen Anne's Wishing Well. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; value, £237 with residence. The church is good, and was completely restored in 1874.