Description

Barton-St-David a parish in Somerset, on the river Brue, 6 miles from Castle Cary station on the G.W.R., and 4 NE of Somerton. It includes the hamlet of Silver Street, and has a post office under Somerton; money order office, Keinton Mandeville; telegraph office, Butleigh. Acreage, 989; population, 308. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, ?259, in the gift of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church was restored in 1874. There is a Congregational chapel.