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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"BABCARY, a parish in the hundred of Catsash, in the county of Somerset, 4 miles to the N.E. of Ilchester. Somerton is its post town. It is watered by the small river Cary, a feeder of the Parrot, and contains the hamlets of Farringdon and Steart. The stream gives name to this and several other villages. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Bath and Wells, of the value of £450, in the patronage of the Rev. W. H. Twemlow, rector. The church is dedicated to the Holy Cross."[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)"HIGHER and LOWER FARRINGDON, hamlets in the parish of Babcary, hundred of Catsash, county Somerset, 4 miles S.W. of Castle-Cary.
"STEART, a hamlet in the parish of Babcary, county Somerset, 5 miles S.W. of Castle Cary."
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]