CHARLTON-ADAM, a parish in the hundred of
SOMERTON, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (E.) from Somerton,
containing 377 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and
diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books
at £6. 14. 7v endowed with £200 private benefaction,
£200 royal bounty, and £.300 parliamentary grant, and
in the patronage of H. P. Collins, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. A chantry, or free
chapel, dedicated to St. Stephen, was anciently founded
here by Lord Henry Fitz-Richard, by permission of the
prior of Brewton, under whom he held the manor. The
old Roman Fosse-way from Bath to Ilchester proceeds
through this parish.