YATTON, a parish in the hundred of WINTERSTOKE, county of SOMERSET, comprising East and West Yatton, and containing 1516 inhabitants, of which number, 598 are in East, and 918 in West, Yatton, 8 miles (N.) from Axbridge. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Kenn annexed, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Yatton in the Cathedral Church of Wells, rated in the king's books at £30. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a stately cruciform structure, with a tower in the centre, formerly surmounted by a spire. Eight poor children are instructed for £10. 10. a year, arising from a donation of £120 and certain land, by John Lane. On Cadbury hill, in the vicinity, are vestiges of an ancient fortification. In 1782, thirteen human bodies, some of them fresh and of unusual size, and a stone coffin, were discovered in a limestone quarry, about two feet and a half below the surface of the earth.