CAMEL (WEST), a parish forming, with the parish
of Yeovilton,the south-eastern portion of the hundred of
SOMERTON, county of SOMERSET, 85 miles (E. N.E.) from
Ilchester, containing 304 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £ 13. 8. 9V
and in the patronage of the Crown. The church js
dedicated to All Saints, In a hill, half a mile northward
from this place, two catacombs, in which lay several
human figures, regularly ranged in rows, were discovered
near the close of the last century.