CUDWORTH, a parish in the southern division of
the hundred of PETHERTON, county of SOMERSET, 3
miles (S. S. E.) from Ilminster, containing 144 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar
jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Cudworth
in the Cathedral Church of Wells, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael.