CAMERTON, a parish in the hundred of WELLOW, county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Bath, containing 1004 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £15. 9. 2., and in the patronage of Mrs. Jarret. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There are meeting-houses for Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. The Radford canal crosses this parish; and an old Roman Fosse-way traces its south-east boundary. Here is a coal mine, wherein impressions of fern, rushes, and other plants, have been discovered. Various relics of the Britons, Romans, and Saxons have been found.