QUANTOXHEAD (WEST), a parish in the hundred of WILLITON-and-FREEMANNERS, county of SOMERSET, 15 miles (W. N. W.) from Bridg-water, containing 225 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £11. 8. 8. Miss Balch was patroness in 1814. The church is dedicated to St. Ethelred.