[2] Artifacts from early settlement in the parish include a polished stone axe and boat shaped-bronze brooch.

The manor descended with its neighbour East Coker until the 14th century when it passed to a junior branch of the Courtenay family.

[3] The village had a long history of growing hemp and flax for sailcloth manufacture, which made "Coker Canvas" highly prized by naval captains during the Napoleonic Wars.

[2] Dawe's Twineworks, a late 19th-century[4] historic building in the village used for the manufacture of rope and twine, was a featured candidate on the BBC Restoration TV series in 2006.

The Parish Council also looks after the recreation ground which has a pavilion, a tennis court, cricket pitches, children's sports areas and the Scouts and Guides buildings.

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

The rare French oat-grass is very abundant on the site and the fields are home to a wide variety of plant species, most notably adder's tongue, corky-fruited water-dropwort and large numbers of green-winged orchid.

Commercial and Community Services: Points of Interest: Transport: West Coker is Thomas Hardy's Narrowbourne, and features in the story A Tragedy of Two Ambitions in his collection Life's Little Ironies published in 1894.