MUCHELNEY, a parish in the hundred of PITNEY,
county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (S. S. E.) from Langport,
containing 329 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £10, endowed
with£ 600 private benefaction, £ 800 royal bounty,
and £300 parliamentary grant. Henry Tripp, Esq. was
patron in 1822. The church is dedicated to St. Peter
and St. Paul. The navigable river Yeo bounds the parish
on the north-east. A Benedictine abbey, in honour
of St. Peter and St. Paul, was founded here, in 939, by
King Athelstan, the revenue of which, at the dissolution,
was valued at £498. 16. 3.