Lydford, East and West, two small villages about 1/2 m. apart, lying on either side of the Fosseway, 5 m.  W. of Castle Cary.  At the E. hamlet is a small modern memorial church, with a spire (1866).  The W. village, which is traversed by the Brue, has a church which was rebuilt in 1846, and has undergone several renovations since.

Lympsham, a parish 6 m.  S.S.E. of Weston-super-Mare (nearest station Brent Knoll, 2-1/2 m.).  It has a church with a good tower (double windows in the belfry), which is said to lean westward some, feet out of the perpendicular.  Within note (1) the fine wood roof of the N. aisle, which was once a chapel (it has a piscina); (2) the 12th cent. tub font.

Lyng, a village 1/2 m.  W. of Athelney Station, situated on the Tone.  Its little aisleless church, which was once a chapelry of Alfred’s monastery at Athelney, has a beautiful, though small, Perp. tower (with double belfry windows).  One of the bells dates from 1609.  The body of the church (of earlier date than the tower) contains much that is interesting, particularly a good Dec. sedile and some fine carved bench-ends (16th cent.).  Note also (1) the oak pulpit, (2) old glass in a window on N. of chancel, (3) piscinas, (4) tub font, (5) old chest hollowed from a single trunk (under the tower).  The “isle” of Athelney, with Alfred’s monument, is in this parish.

Maperton is a pleasant village 3-1/2 m.  E. from Sparkford.  Of the church, which is rather screened from view by an adjoining mansion, the only old portion is the tower.  A few corbels of an earlier church and a piece of interlaced carving are preserved in the S. porch.  The piscina deserves notice; it is said to be Norman.

Mark, a large but scattered village on the marshes between Highbridge and Wells, 3 m.  N.E. from Bason Bridge Station (S. & D.).  The houses straggle along the road-side for a considerable distance.  The church, which is at the far end of the village, is of some dignity, and has been carefully restored.  It has a Perp. tower, with triple belfry windows of not very successful design, and there is a good parapet to the nave.  The S. aisle is evidently older than the rest of the building (note the arcade).  The fine panelled roof covering the N. aisle should be observed, and the projecting figures on the wall-plate of the nave.  Other features claiming attention are (1) the unusual direction of the squints in the chancel arch, (2) Perp. screens (1634), (3) rood-loft stair and turret in N. aisle, (4) blocked priest’s door in sanctuary, (5) blocked squint in S. porch, (6) carved font under tower.  The chancel contains some finely carved figures of the Evangelists, brought from Bruges Cathedral by a former rector.

Marksbury, a small village on the Keynsham and Wells road, 4 m.  S. from Keynsham.  The church is an ugly little building with a plaster ceiling and a chancel out of centre with the rest of the structure.  The tower is crowned with an eccentric set of pyramidal pinnacles, and has a small 17th-cent. inscription on its W. face.