ILTON, a parish in the hundred of ABDICK-AND-BULSTONE,
county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (N. N.W.) from IIminster,
containing 460 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, rated in the king's books at £ 6. 19.4,,
endowed with £5 per annum and £500 private benefaction,
£400 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant,
and in the patronage of the Prebendary of llton in the
Cathedral Church of Wells. The church is dedicated
to St. Peter.