HUISH-EPISCOPI, a parish in the eastern division
of the hundred of KINGSBURY, though locally in
the hundred of Somerton, county of SOMERSET, f a
mile (E.) from Langport, containing 472 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage with that of Langport,
in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the
Archdeacon of Wells, as Prebendary of Huish in the
Cathedral Church of Wells, rated in the king's books
at £14. 10. 5., endowed with £200 private benefaction,
and £200 royal bounty. The church, dedicated to St.
Mary, has a handsome western tower ornamented with
battlements and pinnacles. The navigable rivers Parret
and Yeo, or Ivel, unite in this parish.