PRIDDY, a parish in the hundred of WELLS-FORUM, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N.N.W.) from Wells, containing 141 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Westbury, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archidiaconal Court of Wells. One of the largest cattle fairs in the county is held here annually, on August 21st. In the neighbourhood are vestiges of a Roman encampment and nine barrows.