LYDFORD (EAST), a parish in the hundred of
SOMERTON, though locally in that of Catsash, county
of SOMERSET, 4 miles (W.) from Castle-Gary, containing
137 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 £7 9. 7, and in
the patronage of Mrs. Rhoda Harbin. The old Roman
Fosse-way skirts the western boundary of this parish.