CAMEL (QUEEN), a parish in the hundred of CATSASH, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (E.N.E.) from Ilchester, containing 712 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at & 17.16. 8., and in the patronage of Miss Ann Mildmay. The church is dedicated to St. Barnabas. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. This was a place of some note previously to its being burnt about the close of the sixteenth century. A charter was anciently granted, allowing a market to be held twice a week, and four fairs annually: the former has long been discontinued, and only two of the latter are now held, viz., one on Trinity-Tuesday, and the other on October 25th. Opposite the hamlet of Wales, by the bank of the river Camel, there is a spring, the water of which has been successfully used in scrofulous cases.