BLACKFORD, a chapelry in the parish of WEDMORE,
hundred of BEMPSTONE, county of SOMERSET
5 miles (S. by W.) from Axbridge. The population is
returned with the parish. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, and in the patronage of the Dean of
Wells. The chapel is of recent erection, towards defraying
the expense of which the Incorporated Society
for the enlargement of churches and chapels gave £200,
The manor was given as part of the endowment of
Bruton Hospital, by Hugh Saxey, Esq., the founder;
and two boys are annually sent from this place to
be educated at that institution. Here is a mineral
spring.