[1] In Saxon times, it was a tributary manor of Dulverton, held by Ordwulf on behalf of King Edward II and paid a tax of 24 sheep.

Goods services were withdrawn at Dulverton the following year and complete closure of the Devon and Somerset line came on 3 October 1966.

The station buildings survived as part of the Caernarvon Arms Hotel, which was visited by the poet Tennyson in 1891,[9] and has since been re-developed into flats.

It is also part of the Tiverton and Minehead county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The Herbert memorial chapel, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, includes a chest tomb with effigy of Aubrey Herbert of Pixton Park, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Southern division of Somerset from 1911 to 1918, and for Yeovil from 1918 until his death in 1923, by Cecil de Banquiere Howard of Paris under a wooden canopy also designed by Lutyens.

[11] The church has a medieval screen, 13th-century font and possibly the oldest parish chest in the country, hollowed from a tree trunk.