Hillfarrance today is part of the Taunton Deane district which has changed over two centuries In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hillfarrance like this: Hillfarrance, a parish in the Wellington district of Somerset on a branch of the river Tone, and on the Bristol and Exeter railway 3½ miles NE of Wellington Post town, Taunton Acres, 920 Real property, £2, 624 Pop., 582 Houses, 126 The property is much subdivided: the manor belonged to William de Vernay of the 14th century and belongs now to several proprietors The living church is a vicarage in the diocese of Bath and Wells. Value, £153 Patron, Trinity College, Oxford. The church consists of nave, chancel, and S chapel, with porch and tower; and is good