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Donyatt, "a parish in the hundred of Abdick and Bulstone, county of Somerset, 2¼ miles WSW of Ilminster, containing 518 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells 15. R. T. COMBE, Esq. was patron in 1822. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. The river Isle runs through the parish, and over it are four bridges. At a place called Crockstreet there are three potteries. John DUNSTER, citizen and cloth-worker of London, founded, in 1625, an almshouse, with an endowment now producing £48 per annum, for three poor men and three women." (Lewis)