HALTON, (Somerset) on the W. side of Sedgemoor, bel. heretofore to the Lds. Hungerford; one of whom forfeiting it, with his other estates, to the crown, by his endeavouring to restore Hen. VI. to the throne, his daughter, Lady Mary, in the R. of Henry VII. procured the reversal of her father's attainder, and the restitution of his lands and honours, and carried this manor, with others, by marriage to Edward Ld. Hastings.