NUNNEY, a parish in the hundred of FROME,
county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (S.W. by W.) from
Frome, containing, with the hamlet of .Trudox-hill,
1120 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells,
rated in the king's books at £ 15. 9. 4. C. Theobald,
Esq. was patron in 1817. The church, dedicated to
St. Peter, is a handsome structure, and has lately re-
<ceived an addition of four hundred sittings, of which
three hundred and fifty are free, the Incorporated Society
for the enlargement of churches and chapels having
granted £250 towards defraying the expense. There is
a place of worship forWesleyan Methodists. The Rev.
Samuel Whitchurch, in 1797, left an annuity of £2.10.
in support of a Sunday school for both sexes. On the
banks of the Frome is a small manufactory for agricultural
implements. Here are the remains of a castle,
erected by the family of De la Mere, and subsequently
garrisoned for Charles I., during which it was besieged
and taken, after a stout resistance, by the parliamentary
forces, in September 1643. Near the site is an old
decayed mansion, now occupied as a farm-house; and
Qn a steep -hill in the neighbourhood are vestiges of a
single intrenched Roman camp.