[1] The village is located on the southern edge of the Somerset Levels and many of the houses are built from cob and thatched with local reeds.

[3] It is located in the Glastonbury and Somerton parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Barrington Court, the local manor house, is a fine Tudor building which anticipates some features of the later Elizabethan style.

The interior was virtually gutted in 1825, and restored in 1921–25 by James Edwin Forbes and John Duncan Tate for A.A. Lyle having passed to the National Trust in 1908.

[7] The church bears a memorial to WWII General Sir Edward Pellew Quinan KCB, KCIE, DSO, OBE.