DURSTON, a parish in Taunton district, Somerset; on the Bristol and Exeter railway, near the Bridge-water and Taunton canal, 4 miles NE by N of Taunton. It has a station on the railway, at the junction of the line to Yeovil; and its post town is Monkton, under Taunton. Acres, 1, 022. Real property, £2, 719. Pop., 223. Houses, 45. The property is divided among a few. A priory, succeeded by a Knights-Hospitallers' preceptory, stood here at Buckland-Sororum. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £170. Patron, the Rev. A. Gray. The church is good.

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