CHARLETON (QUEEN), a parish in the hundred
of KEYNSHAM, county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (N.N.E.)1
from Pensford, containing 147 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and
diocese of Bath and Wells, endowed with £ 1000 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of Miss Dickenson. The
church is dedicated to St. Margaret. This place obtained'
its distinguishing appellation from having been settled
on Catherine Parr, queen of Henry VIII. The salubrity,
of the air made it anciently a place of considerable
resort, particularly in 1574, when the plague swept away
two thousand persons at Bristol. The road to Bath
formerly passed through the village. A fair, granted by
Elizabeth, on her progress through this place in 1573>
is held annually on the 20th of July. In 1760, Mary
Freeman left £500, producing £25 per annum, for
clothing and teaching twenty boys, and for supplying
them with books.