BECK1NGTON, a parish in the hundred of FROME,
county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (N. E.) from Frome, containing
1645 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with
that of Standerwick annexed, in the archdeaconry of
Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the
lung's books at £19. 11. Of., and in the patronage of
the Rev. Henry Sainsbury. The church, dedicated to
St. George, contains the remains of Samuel Daniel,
poet-laureat and historian, who died here in 1619;
and William Huish, rector of this parish, and one of
the editors of the Polyglott Bible, who died in 1688.
There are places of worship for Particular Baptists and
Wesleyan Methodists. The manufacture of cloth was
formerly extensively carried on in this parish, and still
exists to a limited degree. Thomas Beckington, Bishop
of Bath and Wells, and a distinguished statesman, was
born here, in 1645.