Wayford is a village 3 m.  S.W. of Crewkerne Station.  Its church occupies an elevated position, and displays several ancient features.  Its windows are E.E. or Dec., some having the interior arch foliated.  There is a good double piscina under a foliated canopy, and an old octagonal font.

Weare, a large village near the Axe, 3 m.  S.W. of Axbridge.  It is said to have been a borough in the early part of the 14th cent., sending two members to Parliament.  The church has a good tower, rather deficient in height, with triple belfry windows.  The treatment of the belfry staircase is unusual, and deserves notice.  The interior of the church contains comparatively little of antiquarian interest.  In one of the N. windows are some fragments of ancient glass, bearing seemingly the initials of Thomas Beckington.  Note (1) piscina and small brass (late 15th cent.) in the sanctuary, (2) square Norm. font, (3) Jacobean pulpit (1617).  There is a cross in the churchyard.

Wedmore, a large village 4 m.  S. of Cheddar, situated on rising ground, which affords a good view of part of the Mendips and of the hamlets resting upon their slopes.  The place is famous as the scene of Guthrum’s “chrisom-loosing” after his baptism at Aller, and of his treaty with Alfred (see p. 13).  Its church (Perp.) is an interesting building.  The tower is central (as at Axbridge, Yatton, etc.), with triple windows in the belfry; and as it has no pinnacles, it presents a very plain outline (cp.  Yeovil).  The original cruciform plan of the church is disguised by the N. and S. aisles and chapels.  The oldest parts are the tower arches and the S. doorway, which are late Trans.; the S. chapel has a Dec. window; the rest of the structure is Perp.  Note (1) gallery or parvise over the porch; (2) groined vaulting under tower; (3) wooden roof of N. chapel; (4) sedile, piscina, and squint; (5) fine Jacobean pulpit; (6) mural brasses to Thomas and George Hodges (1583 and 1630).  There appear to be traces of a double rood-loft (as at Axbridge and Crewkerne).  There is a cross in the churchyard, and a second (with defaced sculptures) in a garden on the L. hand of the Glastonbury road.

At Mudgeley, a hamlet 1-1/2 m. away, King Alfred is believed to have had a palace, and the foundation of walls have been discovered in the course of recent excavations.

WELLINGTON, a market town 7 m.  S.W. from Taunton, with a station on the main G.W. line to Exeter.  Population, 7283.  No one seems to know why the hero of Waterloo chose to immortalise this quiet little west-country town:  he does not appear to have had any original connection with it.  The reputation of Wellington, made by war, is now maintained by woollens.  The town is girdled by large cloth and serge mills.  In general appearance the place is not unprepossessing.  The streets are wide and airy, and their arrangement compact, but the shops are poor, and create an impression