MEARE, a parish in the hundred of GLASTON-TWELVE-HIDES, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (N. W. by W.) from Glastonbury, containing 1151 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £13. 2. 8., endowed with £400 private benefaction, and £ 600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of W. T. H. Phelps, Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is in the early style of English architecture, with an embattled tower. Here are remains of encampments, of Danish origin, with a double ditch.