SHEPTON-MONTAGUE, a parish, with three hamlets, in Wincanton district, Somerset; on the Somerset and Dorset railway, 2¾ miles NW of Wincanton. Post town, Evercreech, under Bath. Acres, 2,424. Real property, £2,920. Pop., 433. Houses, 92. The manor belongs to W. Phelips, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £62. Patron, the Earl of Ilchester. The church is later English, and was restored in 1855. There is a national school.

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