COKER (East), a parish in Yeovil district, Somerset; adjacent to the boundary with Dorset, and to the Yeovil and Exeter railway, 3 miles SSW of Yeovil. It has a post office under Yeovil. Acres, 2, 121. Real property, £5, 278. Pop., 1, 186. Houses, 247. The property is divided among a few. Coker Court is the seat of the Helyars. A Roman pavement and other Roman remains were found here in 1753. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £212.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Exeter. The church is later English and cruciform. There are a British school and charities £46. Dampier, the circumnavigator, was a native.

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