FIVEHEAD, a parish in the hundred of ABDICK-and-BULSTONE,
county of SOMERSET, 5 miles (S.W.
by W.) from Langport, containing 326 inhabitants. The
living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of
Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
king's books at £7. 2. 8., endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The chiirch,
dedicated to St. Martin, is a neat building, with an
embattled tower at the west end.