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Milverton in Somerset County England History and GeographyMILVERTON, a market town and parish in the bundred of MILVERTON, county of SOMERSET, 26 miles (W. by S.) from Somerton, and 151 (W. by S.) from London, containing 1930 inhabitants. The present name of the town, which is a place of very great antiquity, is considered to be a corruption of Mill-fordtown it was formerly a royal borough, and the king, as superior lord, still receives certain chief rents and fines. Mtherton is delightfully situated, amidst woodland secuery, upon an eminence just above the western extremity of the vale of Taunton-Dean, over the whole of which it commands an uninterrupted view it consists of three irregular streets, which are neither paved nor lighted, but the inhabitants are well supplied with water. Here was formerly an extensive manufacture of serges, druggets, and flannels; at present the chief employment is silk-throwing, and this has much declined of late years. The market is on Friday: a fair, chartered by Queen Anne, formerly held on Easter Tuesday, is now disused; but one is held on the 10th of October, for broad cloth and pedlary. A portreeve and subordinate officers are appointed annually; but the town is under the jurisdiction of the county magistrates, who hold petty sessions here. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Langford Budville, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Archdeacon of Taunton, as Prebendary of Milverton in the Cathedral Church of Wells, rated in the king's books at £21. 19. 2. The church, which is dedicated to St. Michael, is a spacious edifice, supposed to have been one of the numerous churches in this county which were built in the reign of Henry VII. There are places of worship for the Society of Friends and Independents. In 1721, Mary Lamb devised £300 for the education of children, and the funds having accumulated for several years, the present income is £54. 2. per annum; twenty boys and twenty girls are instructed by a master, whose salary is £40 per annum. An old house, called the parsonage-house, is said to have been erected by Cardinal Wolsey, whose arms are visible over the door: he had considerable property in this town. John de Milverton, a Carmelite friar in the fifteenth century, who distinguished himself by writing against Wickliff, was a native of this place. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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