Bone and stone tools found in caves at Uphill provide evidence of human activity in the Upper Palaeolithic period, and a radiocarbon date of around 28,000 Before Present, which came from a bone point, was the first scientifically derived direct date from the entire British Isles for an artefact of that period (the Aurignacian).

[5] During the English Civil War the port was used to bring two regiments, about 1,500 men, of the Royalist Army from South Wales before the Battle of Langport.

[6] It continued as a small landing stage for many centuries including the import of coal and iron and the export of local produce.

The philanthropist Hannah More convalesced at uphill in 1773 and a few years later Jane Biss was advertising summer accommodation in the village while the landlord of the Ship Inn had a bathing machine for hire.

Steeper banks and knolls in the grassland have a flora which includes orchids, Somerset Hair Grass (Koeleria vallesiana), and Honewort (Trinia glauca), and the Goldilocks Aster (Galatella linosyris) along with several species of butterfly and Weevil (Curculionoidea).

[16] The hill and Walborough common, which are adjacent to each other, are local nature reserves making a total area of 38.14 hectares (94.2 acres).

These attract redshank, dunlin, shelduck, black-tailed godwit, skylark, linnet, rock and meadow pipit.

[22] The present day Church of St Nicholas is situated on lower ground towards the north end of the village.

Weston Hospicecare, a hospice providing palliative care to patients from the surrounding area with terminal illnesses, is also based here.