CORSTON, a parish in the hundred of WELLOW,
county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (W.) from Bath, containing
368 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £6. 3. 9.>
endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bath
and Wells. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The
river Avon bounds the parish on the north-east: cornud
timmoniS) and various petrified shells, abound in the
quarries hare.