WESTON-ZOYLAND, a parish, with a village, in Bridgewater district, Somerset; 3½ miles ESE of Bridgewater r. station. It has a post-office under Bridgewater, and a fair on 9 Sept. Acres, 2,729. Real property, £9,137. Pop. in 1851, 1,007; in 1861, 894. Houses, 205. The manor belongs to N . Welman, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £375.* Patron, the Bishop of B. and W. The church is ancient but good, and has a very fine later English tower. There are two Methodist chapels, a national school, and charities £12.

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