LYDFORD (WEST), a parish in the hundred of
CATSASH, county of SOMERSET, 65 miles (W.) from
Castle-Gary, containing 437 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the jurisdiction of the peculiar court of
West Lydford at Wells, rated in the king's books at
£17. 13. 4. E. F. Colston, Esq. and others were patrons
in 1810. Elizabeth Pope, in 1755, bequeathed
£ 100, directing the interest to be applied for teaching
six children, and to the poor. The old Roman Fosseway
passes through the parish.