NORTHOVER, a parish in the hundred of TINTINETOLL, county of SOMERSET, 1 mile (N.) from Ilchester, containing 121 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 £6.12.11., and in the patronage of J. H. Chichester, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The navigable river Yeo, and the old Fosse-way, pass through the parish.