CLUTTON, a parish in the hundred of CHEW,
county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (S. by E.) from Pensford,
containing 1206 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
jn the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and
Wells, rated in the king's books at £9. 4. 2., and in the
patronage of the Earl of Upper Ossory. The church is
dedicated to St. Augustine. There are places of worship
for Methodists and Independents. In 1728, the
trustees of a legacy of £200, bequeathed by Mr. Perry,
and of another of £ 98 by Mr. Adams, vested the money
in land, and founded a free school, the income of whicli
is £20 per annum, for teaching and apprenticing ten
children of the parish. A school is carried on in a
large room built upon the church lands, from a charge
upon which, and the interest arising from -some charities
at Chewstoke and Glutton, all the poor boys of the
parish are taught upon the National system. There are
extensive coal-mines worked in the parish. In the vicinity
are vestiges of an ancient fortification, called
Highbury, where British weapons have been found;
which, from the discovery of some foundations, seems
to have been surrounded with walls.