Kingstone Parish History

“"The boundaries of Kingstone and Dinnington suggest that the two places once formed a single unit, probably when Glastonbury abbey held both in the 10th and early 11th centuries.The deeplycut Longforward Lane, known in the 16th century as Longforehed Lane, forms much of the two-mile northern boundary of the parish with Whitelackington and Seavington St. Mary. The irregular western limit, bordering Ilminster and Dowlishwake, follows a tributary of the Isle, and subsequently the road south and west of the church. Near the Butts it leaves the road and turns south to Dowlish brook, which then forms part of the southern boundary. The south-eastern boundary, with Dinnington, is highly irregular and in places interlocking, both parishes sharing Allowenshay mead. The extreme eastern part of the parish crosses the Foss Way to include Paul's mill."”

A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 3, ed. R W Dunning (London, 1974), pp. 203-209. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol3/pp203-209 [accessed 12 March 2020].

The above is quoted with permission from British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol3/pp203-209. You can read more of this fascinating history of Kingstone Parish at the British History Online here. 

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