ELM, a parish in the hundred of FROME, county of
SOMERSET, % miles (N.W. by W.) from Frome, com"
prising the hamlets of Great Elm "and Little Elm, and
containing 449 inhabitants, The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath
and Wells, rated in the king's books at £9. 13. 6.,
endowed with £50 per annum private benefaction, and
£200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rev,
Charles Griffith, D. D. The church is dedicated to St.
Mary. The river Frome, which runs through the parish,
has extensive iron-works and manufactories for agri-
cultural implements on its banks. Near the northern
bank of a rivulet, and on the edge of a precipice, are
the remains of a Roman intrenchment called Tedbury,
in which a vessel containing coins of the Lower Empire
was found in 1691.