Whatley is a small rural village and civil parish about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Frome in the English county of Somerset.

The parish lies south of Mells and north of Nunney, and includes the hamlets of Lower Whatley and Chantry.

According to Robinson, it was called Watelei in the Domesday Book of 1086, when the tenants of the Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey were Walter Hussey and John the Usher.

[8] It is also part of the Frome and East Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

[11] The parish is part of the benefice of Mells with Buckland Dinham, Chantry, Great Elm and Whatley within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.