HATCH (West), a village and a parish in Taunton district, Somerset. The village stands near the Hatch station of the Chard and Taunton railway, 4¼ miles SE of Taunton. The parish comprises 1,681 acres. Posttown, Hatch-Beauchamp, under Taunton. Rated property, £2, 008. Pop., 432. Houses, 101. The property is much subdivided. The manor belongs to the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The limits include part of Sedgemoor. The living is a vicarage, formerly annexed to the vicarage of North Curry, but made a separate charge in 1856, in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £65.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Wells. The church is later English; was restored and enlarged in 1861; and consists of aisles, chancel, and porcli, with tower and spire. There is a national school.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))