LOAD, a chapelry in the parish of MARTOCK, and hundred of MARTOCK, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (S.S.W.) from Somerton. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Martock, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. The chapel is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. The navigable river Yeo, or Ivel, is here crossed by a bridge.