PURITON, a parish in the hundred of HUNTSPILL-and-PURITON,
county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N. N. E.)
from Bridg-water, containing, with Woollavington, 350
inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, united
with that of Woollavington, in the archdeaconry of
Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
king's books at £6.15.10. The church is dedicated
to St. Michael. The navigable river Parret runs on the
south-west of this parish. A small school is supported
from the poor's estate.