Water levels were improved by work on the river below Langport, and the 1841 census records that a salt house had been constructed.

Cargoes arriving at the wharves included slates, bricks, tiles and coal, while the main export was timber.

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

The first solid evidence of a church on the present site is a tablet in the vestry dated 1733, which states that lands were added here at that time.

The Anglican parish Christ Church was built in 1854–1856, by Charles Edmund Giles, replacing a chapel on the site which was first recorded 1418.