OTHERY, a parish in the hundred of WELLOW,
county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N. W. by N.) from
Langport, containing, with a part of Boroughbridge,
509 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
within the jurisdiction of Glastonbury, and diocese 01
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £12, endowed
with £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of the Bishop of Bath and Wells. The church, dedicated
to St. Michael, is a large cruciform structure, with
a handsome tower, seventy-five feet in height. The navigable
river Parret forms the western and southern
boundaries of the parish, in which there is a quarry of
good building stone.