Description
Yeovilton, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Somerset, 1 1/2 mile E of Ilchester, and 4 1/2 miles from Yeovil station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Ilchester, under Taunton. Acreage, 1779; population, 217. The manor was known to the Saxons as Geviltone, belonged at the Norman Conquest to W. du Ewe, passed to W. de Botreaux and others, and belongs now to the Wingfield Digby family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, £320 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, with an embattled western tower.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
