CHARLTON-HORETHORNE, a parish (formerly
a market-town) in the hundred of HORETHORNE,
county of SOMERSET, 65 miles (S. W.) from Wincanton,
containing 489 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 £8. 10. 5.,
and in the patronage of Charles Gilbert, Esq. The
church is dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul. In the
22nd of Edward I., a charter was obtained by Henry
de Lacy, for a weekly market, and an annual fair on
the eve and day of St. Thomas the Martyr; the market
has been disused. There was anciently a chantry
chapel within the manor, dependent on the priory of
Kenilworth.