SWELL, a parish in the hundred of ABDICK-and-BULSTONE, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (W. S.W.) from Langport, containing 133 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the lung's books at £5. 10. 5., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. The church is dedicated to St. Catherine.