BLEADON, a parish in the hundred of WINTERSTOKE, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (W. N. W.) from Axbridge, containing 518 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £27. 7. 8., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. The Rev. Meric Casaubon, D.D., an eminent critic and divine, and son of the celebrated critic, Isaac Casaubon, was collated to this benefice about 1624. The navigable river Axe passes through the parish, and by means of it a considerable trade in coal is carried on. Here are vestiges of a British settlement, but the Roman road on which it stood can scarcely be traced. There are several barrows on an eminence in the vicinity, some of which, on being opened, were found to contain human bones, which, from their position, and the evidence of some coins lying near them, were supposed to have been those of Danes; a large quantity of ancient armour has also been dug up.