DOWNHEAD, a chapelry in the parish of DOULTING, hundred of WHITESTONE, county of SOMERSET, 8 miles (E.N.E.) from Shepton-Mallet, containing 208 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Doulting, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells. The chapel is dedicated to All Saints.