It was recorded in the Domesday book as Utramestone meaning 'The outermost enclosure' from the Old English ultramest and tun.

By 1997, a combination of coastal erosion, sea level rise and wave action had made some of the defences distinctly fragile and at risk from failure.

As a result, in 2002 the Environment Agency produced the Stolford to Combwich Coastal Defence Strategy Study to examine options for the future.

[6] It is also part of the Bridgwater county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The Church of St Peter was built in 1870 by J. Knowles for Susanna Lewes Jeffery, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.