WORLE, a parish in the hundred of WINTERSTOKE,
county of SOMERSET, 8 miles (N. W.) from Axbridge,
containing 673 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £ 12. 15.,
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church, dedicated
to St. Martin, is a neat structure, with a tower
surmounted by a small spire. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. This parish produces
very fine limestone and lapis calaminaris: here are vestiges
of a Roman camp. The inhabitants feed great
numbers of poultry, and dispose of them to the visitors
at Weston super Mare, which has become a thriving
watering-place.