NINEHEAD, a parish in the hundred of TAUNTON-and-TAUNTON-DEAN, county of SOMERSET, 1 mile (N. by W.) from Wellington, containing 308 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £-8. 7. 11., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Crown. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The river Tone, which runs through the parish, was wont frequently to overflow its banks, till the spirited proprietor of the parish, W. A. Sanford, Esq., caused its bed to be widened to the extent of about forty yards, at which work and in building a bridge of three arches, one hundred and seventy feet in length, forming several picturesque cascades, &c. he employed from five hundred to six hundred men during the greater part of the years 1815 and 1816. A school also has been erected and is supported by his son, E. A. Sanford, Esq., for the education of from sixty to seventy children upon the National system. Limestone is obtained in the parish.