GODNEY, a chapelry in the parish of MEARE, hundred of GLASTON-TWELVE-HIDES, county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (N. N. W.) from Glastonbury. The population is returned -with the parish. The living is a perpetual curacy, -within the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of Glastonbury, endowed with £ 1000 royal bounty. The chapel, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, stands upon the site of a more ancient edifice; at the west end is an inscription stating that it was restored, in 1737, by Peter Davis, Esq., Recorder of Wells.