THURLBEAR, a parish in the hundred of NORTH-CURRY,
county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (S. E.) from
Taunton, containing 215 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, and in the patronage of the Rt. Hon.
W. Arbuthnot. The church is dedicated to St. Thomas.
It was anciently a chapel to the vicarage of St. Mary
Magdalene, in Taunton, but the tithes were restored by
Sir Thomas Petman, Bart.