WESTON-super-MARE, a parish in the hundred
of WINTERSTOKE, county of SOMERSET, 9 miles
(N.W. byW.) from Axbridge, containing, with the hamlets
of Ashcombe and Milton, 738 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of
Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
king's books at £14. 17. 11., and in the patronage of
the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church, dedicated
to St. John, is a neat edifice, lately erected. There are
two places of worship for Dissenters. The place is
situated on the margin of Uphill bay, near the Bristol
channel, and possesses the usual appendages of a neat
watering-place, having considerably increased in size
within the last twenty years: there are commodious
inns and lodging-houses, and good baths. A convenient
market-house has recently been erected, at the
expense of Richard Parsley, Esq. A few persons are
engaged in the sprat and herring fishery. A small
school, for the instruction of poor children, is supported
by voluntary contributions. At Worteberry,
above the village, is a rampart of stones, twenty feet
high, with ditches attached; and a well in the parish
possesses the unusual properties of being empty at
high water, and full when the tide is at its ebb.