WILTON, a parish in the hundred of TAUNTON-and-TAUNTON-DEAN,
county of SOMERSET, containing 579
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells,
endowed with £400 private benefaction, £600 royal
bounty, and £700 parliamentary grant; and in the patronage
of George Stone, Esq. The church, dedicated
to St. George, was formerly a chapel to the vicarage
of St. Mary Magdalene, in Taunton, to which town
Wilton forms an extensive suburb. Here was formerly
an hospital, built by one of the Bishops of Winchester.