It is also part of the Wells and Mendip Hills constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[3] It was the birthplace of Sir Edward Dyer (1543–1607) an Elizabethan poet and courtier, the writer Henry Fielding (1707–54), and the cleric William Gould (1715–1799).

The Sharpham Park estate is now owned by Roger Saul, founder of the Mulberry fashion company, and produces organic foods specialising in spelt (an ancient cereal grain).

It involves restoring, preserving and maintaining archaeological and historic features including a Bronze Age trackway and a duck decoy pond that is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

[5] Nearby is the Sharpham Moor Plot Site of Special Scientific Interest, where detailed plant records exist from as far back as 1915, and continue up to the present day.