SHEPTON-BEAUCHAMP, a parish, with a village, in Chard district, Somerset; 4 miles WSW of Martock r. station, and 4 ENE of Ilminster. It has a post-office under Ilminster. Acres, 836. Real property, £2,711. Pop., 658. Hones, 129. The property is subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £373.* Patron, the Rev. J. S. Coles. The church is later English. There are a Wesleyan chapel, an endowed school, and charities £40.

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