The Reading to Taunton line railway runs under the bridge at Upton and at one time certain trains stopped at Long Sutton and Pitney Halt, as it was called until its closure in the early 1960s.

Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.

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

Some of the gravestones mark the resting place of the Palmer family in the grounds of the Friends' Meeting House.

The current church was built of local lias stone cut and squared, with hamstone dressings.

It has stone slate roofs between stepped coped gabled with finials to the chancel and north porch.

[14] It bears the initials identified as those of Abbot John Petherton of Athelney and vicar William Singleton.

[16] Memorials in the church include a tablet to Elizabeth Banbury, died 1716, with Corinthian columns and entablature, side and bottom swags, as well as a number of 16th- and 17th-century Keinton stone slabs in the floor.

[7] The present Quaker Meeting House was built in Queen Anne style and finished in 1717, with a bequest from William Steele.

Punkie Night originated many years ago and was started by farm labourers to light their way home after work.

The children carry their "punkies" made from either mangolds, turnips, or marrows, which are hollowed out and faces or animals carved on them.