CREECH (ST-MICHAEL), a parish forming, with
the parish of Lyng, which includes the Isle of Athelney,
a distinct portion of the hundred of ANDERSFIELD,
locally in the hundred of Taunton and Taunton-
Dean, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (E. N. B;) from
Taunton, containing' 812 inhabitants. .The living is a
Vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese
of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at
£16. 18. 9., and in the patronage of E. Cresswell, Esq.
The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Henry Stodgel,
in 1701, and Ann Seager, in 1741, bequeathed a rentcharge
of £2 each for teaching poor children. The
navigable river Tone-runs through this parish, and is
crossed by a bridge at the village.