HUTTON, a parish in the hundred of WINTERSTOKE, county of SOMERSET, 7 miles (N. W. by W.) from Axbridge, containing 325 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £ 14. A. G. H. Battersby, Esq. was patron in 1825. The church is dedicated to St. Mary; in the interior is a fine groined ceiling, and the pulpit is of stone, richly ornamented with sculpture. The manorial court-house is a curious edifice, comprising an antique hall, with a fine old oak ceiling, and a large square tower on one side. Some ores of .copper, lapis calaminaris, and yellow ochre, have been dug out of a hill southward of the church; here are also curious subterraneous caverns communicating with the shafts of old mines, in which have been discovered considerable quantities of the bones of elephants, tigers, hyenas, boars, wolves, horses, and other animals, and of birds, supposed to be of antediluvian origin.