TIMSBURY, a parish in the hundred of CHEW,
county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (S.E.) from Pensford
containing 1090 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and
Wells, rated in the king's books at £11. 19. p., and
in the patronage of the Master and Fellows of Balliol
College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary,
has lately received an addition of three hundred and
Forty-one sittings, of which two hundred and eighty,
five are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement
of churches and chapels having granted £250 towards
defraying the expense. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. The Radford canal passes
through the parish, in which there are coal mines that
supply the city of Bath. Fifteen poor children are
taught for about & 16 a year, arising from the rental
of certain houses and land left by Thomas Deeke, in
1759.