BRENT (East), a village and a parish in Axbridge district, Somerset. The village stands near the Bristol and Exeter railway, 4 miles N by E of Highbridge station, and 6 WSW of Axbridge; and has a post office under Weston-super-Mare. The parish includes also the hamlets of Rooksbridge and Edingworth. Acres, 3,037. Real property, £10,390. Pop., 797. Houses, 176. The property is much subdivided. Brent-knoll, on the southern border, is a conical hill 883 feet high; commands an extensive view; and is crowned with vestiges of a doubly entrenched Roman camp. Roman coins and other relics have been found here; and King Alfred is said to have fought with the Danes at Battleborough, at the foot of the hill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £902.* Patron, the Bishop of Bath and Walls. The church is an interesting edifice. with a spire 140 feet high; and has several windows of ancient painted glass. There are a Methodist chapel and a national school; and there was anciently a cell to Glastonbury Abbey.

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