STOCKLAND-BRISTOL, a parish in the hundred
of CANNINGTON, county of SOMERSET, 7 miles (N. W.
by N.) from Bridg-water, containing 199 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in
the king's books at £ 6. 9. 4., and in the patronage of
the Mayor and Corporation of Bristol. The church has
lately received an addition of one hundred and twenty
sittings, of which eighty are free, the Incorporated
Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels
having granted £ 50 towards defraying the expense.