Description

Carhampton, a village, a parish, and a hundred in Somerset. The village stands near the coast, 1 1/2 mile ESE of Dunster, and 1 from Blue Anchor station on the West Somerset and Minehead branch of the G.W.R. It dates from ancient times under the name of Carumtune, and has a post office under Taunton; money order and telegraph office, Dunster. The surface of the parish is diversified with glen and hill. Acreage, 2788; population of the civil parish, 405; of the ecclesiastical, 612. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells; gross value, ?280 with residence. The church, dedicated to St John the Baptist, is ancient, interesting, and good, and contains a screen. The tower was rebuilt in 1872, and contains a peal of six bells. Rodhuish, a detached part of this parish, was amalgamated for civil purposes only with Withycombe in 1884. In the NE corner of the parish is an old manorhouse called Marshwood, formerly the residence of the Luttrell family, and in the W is Knowle House, formerly belonging to the Battersby family.