STOWEY, a parish in the hundred of CHEW,
county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (S. S. W.) from Pensford,
containing 208 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of
Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £6. 12.,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Bath and Wells.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Richard Jones,
in 1688, bequeathed £3000 for teaching and apprenticing
poor children of Stowey and Chew.