CURRY (NORTH), a parish (formerly a market
town) in the hundred of NORTH-CURRY, county of SOMERSET,
6 miles (E. by N.) from Taunton, containing,
with the tythings of Knapp, Lillistone, and Wrantage,
1645 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
with the perpetual curacies of Stoke St. Gregory and
West Hatch annexed, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, rated in the
king's books at £21. The church is dedicated to St.
Peter and St. Paul. There are places of worship for Particular
Baptists and Wesleyan Methodists. This place
appears to have been not unknown to the Romans,
an urn containing a quantity of the silver coins of
that people having been discovered in 1748: it was"
subsequently held by the Saxon kings, and retained
in demesne by the Conqueror. King John granted
it a market, which was formerly held on Wednesday,
but has been long discontinued. The navigable river
Tone passes in the vicinity. Newport, in this parish,
anciently possessed the privileges and officers of a corporate
town, and is still called a borough: it had also a
chapel.