COMPTON-DUNDON, a parish in the hundred of
WHITLEY, county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (N.) from
Somerton, containing, with the hamlet of Littleton, 544
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in
the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary
of Compton-Dandon in the Cathedral Church of
Wells, rated in the king's books at £9. 6. 10., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The ruins of
a mansion that formerly belonged to the family of
Beauchamp adjoin the churchyard. An adjacent hill is
called Dundon Beacon, from a beacon having anciently
been erected on it.