Camel, West, a village 2 m.  S.W. of Sparkford Station, has a church with many features of interest.  In plan it is cruciform, the S. transept being under the tower, which is on the S. side, and is crowned by a small spire.  The arches of the tower, chancel, and N. transept are probably Dec.  The E. window is Dec., with the interior arch foliated.  The rest are Perp.  The nave roof deserves notice.  The chancel contains a double piscina under a large foliated arch, and triple sedilia.  The font is Norm., with shallow arcading round the basin.  Near it is a fragment of the shaft of a cross, ascribed to the 9th cent., with the interlaced carving generally associated with Celtic and Irish crosses.  In a window behind the pulpit there is some ancient glass.

Camely, a parish about 1-1/2 m.  S.W. from Clutton Station, deriving its name from another Cam.  The church is a solitary building standing back from the roadside.  It has a good Perp.  W. tower, but a very uncouth-looking nave and chancel.

Camerton, a flourishing colliery village lying in a deep valley about 2 m.  N.N.E. of Radstock.  It has a terminal station on a small branch line running up from Hallatrow.  The church, which is rather obscurely situated at the back of the rectory, has been well restored, and is handsomely furnished.  The chancel is new.  A side chapel contains two altar-tombs to members of the Carew family (1640-86), said to be mere replicas of the original tombs in Carew Church, Pembrokeshire.  Note (1) stoup inside N. doorway, (2) piscina in organ chamber. Camerton Court (Miss Jarrett), a modern building with a colonnade, stands over against the church on the other side of the dale.

Cannington, a large village 4 m.  N.W. of Bridgwater, is a place of some interest.  It is the birthplace of a distinguished man, for at Brymore House, hard by, John Pym was born.  The church has some unusual features, for a single roof covers nave, aisles, and chancel; and there is no chancel arch.  The whole building is very lofty, and it has good E. and W. windows.  The tower, which will be seen to be out of line with the axis of the nave, is richly ornamented with niches.  Note externally the turret above the rood staircase, and the series of consecration crosses (12) on the E. and S. wall of the chancel; and in the interior observe (1) the carved oak cornice, (2) the screen (the upper part restored), (3) Norm. pillar (a survival of an earlier church) in the vestry, (4) old Bible of 1617.  A priory of Benedictine nuns, founded by a De Courcy (of Stoke Courcy) in 1138, once existed here.  The large house with mullioned windows, near the church, now occupied by a Roman Catholic industrial school, was once a court-house belonging to the Clifford family.

Down a road running E. from the church is Gurney Street Farm, an old manor-house.  It has a small chapel, with piscina, aumbry, niches, and carved roof; above is a chamber (probably for the priest), reached by stairs, each of which consists of a single block of oak, while behind is a room panelled in oak, with a window looking into the chapel.