EVERCREECH, a parish in the hundred of WELLSFORUM, county of SOMERSET, 8 miles (S.E. by S.) from Shepton-Mallet, containing, with Chesterblade, 1253 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Wells, rated in the king's books at £16. 19., and in the patronage of Talbot, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is a large and noble edifice, with a tower in the decorated style of English architecture, one hundred and thirty feet high, terminated with elegant pinnacles. The Wesleyan Methodists have a place of worship here. There is an endowed school for ten boys. The manufacture of silk is carried on to, a considerable extent, furnishing employment to several hundred persons. In this parish are a Roman encampment, and a spring strongly impregnated with salt.