DRAYTON, a parish in the hundred of ABDICK-and-BULSTONE,
county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (S.W.) from
Langport, containing, with the tything of Middleney,
469 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in
the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and
Wells, endowed with £600 private benefaction, and
£600 royal bounty. R. T. Combe, Esq. was patron
in 1816. The church, dedicated to St. Catherine, is an
ancient structure, with an embattled tower at the west
end, and a fine south porch of Norman architecture.