NYLAND, a parish (formerly) in the hundred of
GLASTON-TWELVE-HIDES, county of SOMERSET, 6
miles (N. W. by W.) from Wells, containing, with the
tything of Batcombe, 38 inhabitants. Here was anciently
a church, dedicated to St. Andrew, which, in
670, was given by Kenewalch, King of the West Saxons
to the abbot of Glastonbury, to which parish Nyland is
now considered to belong.