The village has a full range of facilities, such as a primary school, parish church, pub, post office, butcher and hairdresser.

Puriton was mentioned in the Domesday Book as growing pears, and was held by the Church of St Peter's, Rome.

[4] The parish was part of the Huntspill and Puriton Hundred,[5] A cement and lime works was at the western end of the Polden Hills, at Dunball.

It used Blue Lias stone quarried at several locations in the village, transported to the works on narrow-gauge railways.

Between 1911 and 1922 this was commercially extracted by dissolving the salt with water pumped down bore holes, which was brought to the surface and evaporated in boiling pans.

Part of this site, now known as Gravity, has today (19 July 2023), been confirmed to be a new factory for TATA, the owner of Jaguar Land Rover, to build batteries for electric vehicles.

The cement and lime works, next to both the King's Sedgemoor Drain and the Bristol and Exeter Railway line, became run down by the early 1960s and was demolished when the M5 motorway was built through part of the site.

Puriton Park was built over part of the site of an in-filled blue lias quarry, at the eastern end of the village.

The headquarters of the British Institute for Brain Injured Children (BIBIC), has been in a former 19th century house, Knowle Hall, since 1983.

The northern end of King's Sedgemoor Drain, where it discharges into the River Parrett, lies just outside the parish boundary; it runs between the Polden Hills (to the east) and the M5 motorway (to the west).

It had an almost-complete great loop that followed the southern flank of the Polden Hills, along the course of the present-day King's Sedgemoor Drain.

Part of the northern section was realigned in 1973, when the M5 motorway was extended through Somerset: it was diverted to the west of the Puriton Inn to roundabout at junction 23.

The Anglican parish Church of St Michael and All Angels was constructed from local Blue Lias stone.

[17] The afternoon session from 2-6pm hosts a variety of stalls, rides and games for children and an arena in the field where groups from the village and beyond are invited to perform.

[18] The evening session from 6-10pm turns the field into a music concert, allowing local bands and artists the chance to perform on a lorry that has been transformed into a stage.