CAMELEY, a parish in the hundred of CHEWTON, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (S.) from Pensford, containing 604 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £6. 18. 4., and in the patronage of Lady Hippesley. The church is dedicated to St. James. Several quarries of superior Pennant stone, much of which is sent to Bath, for the -purpose.of nagging the pathways, are wrought within the parish.