NORTON-under-HAMBDON, a parish in the
hundred of HOUNDSBOROUGH-BERWICK-and-COKER,
county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N. N. E.) from Crewkerne,
containing 482 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese ot
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £9.16. S.,
and in the patronage of W. Locke, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary.