DITCHEAT, a parish in the hundred of WHITESTONE,
county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (N.N.W.) from
Castle-Cary, containing 1223 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese
of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £46. 5.
Mrs. Leir and another were patrons in 1812. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. The old
Roman fosse-way bounds the parish on the northwest.