Elm (St. Mary)

ELM (St. Mary), a parish, in the union and hundred of Frome, E. division of Somerset, 2¼ miles (N. W. by W.) from Frome; containing 421 inhabitants. The parish is situated on the river Frome, and comprises by admeasurement 895 acres. The manufacture of woollen-cloth is extensively carried on in the vicinity; and on the banks of the Frome are various mills, and some manufactories of scythes, spades, reap-hooks, and other agricultural implements. Abundance of stone of good quality for building is found. The living is a discharged rectory, valued in the king's books at £9. 13. 6½.; patron and incumbent, the Rev. Charles T. Griffith, D.D. The tithes have been commuted for £110, and the glebe comprises 134 acres. The church is an ancient structure with subsequent additions, and has a finely enriched Norman arch at the western entrance. Near the northern bank of a rivulet, and on the edge of a precipice, are the remains of a Roman intrenchment, called Tedbury, in which a vessel containing coins of the Lower Empire was found in 1691.