CHARLTON-MACKREL, a parish in the hundred
of SOMERTON, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (E.) from
Somerton, containing 309 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £ 16.0.2.,
and in the patronage of the Rev. W. P. Brymer. The
church, dedicated to St. Martin, is a handsome edifice
in the ancient style of English architecture, repaired
and embellished at the expense of the present incumbent.
This parish is bounded on the south by the
river Gary, across which there is a bridge of two arches,
on the line of a modern road that passes along the
course of the old Roman Fosse-way.