In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Butleigh like this:
BUTLEIGH, a parish in Wells district, Somerset; on the river Brue, 4 miles SSE of Glastonbury r. station. It includes the hamlet of Butleigh-Wootton; and has a post office under Glastonbury. Acres, 4,467. Real property, £8,139. Pop., 1,038. Houses, 212. The property is divided among a few. ...
Butleigh Court is the seat of R. Neville Grenville, Esq.; was recently rebuilt in part, from designs by Buckler; has a saloon 45 feet by 25; and contains some fine portraits. Butleigh Hill is prominent; and blue lias is found. The living is a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of Baltonsborough, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £380.* Patron, R. Neville Grenville, Esq. The church is decorated English; and was restored in 1851, and enlarged in 1859. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £25.
Butleigh through time
Butleigh is now part of Mendip district. Click here for graphs and data of how Mendip has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Butleigh itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Butleigh, in Mendip and Somerset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12505
Date accessed: 25th April 2024
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