DONYATT, a parish in the hundred of ABDICK-and-BULSTONE,
county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (W. S. W.) from
Ilminster, containing 518 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and. diocese of
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £15. 15.
R. T. Combe, Esq. was patron in 1822. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary. The river Isle runs through the
parish, and over it are four bridges. At a place called
Crockstreet there are three potteries. John Dunster,
citizen and cloth-worker of London, founded, in 1625,
an almshouse, with an endowment now producing £48
per annum, for three poor men and three women.