CHILCOMPTON, a parish in the hundred of CHEWTON, county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (N. N. E.) from Shepton-Mallet, containing 474 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Wells, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of Miss Tooker. The church is dedicated to St. John the Baptist. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The name of this parish is derived from its situation in a cold, though picturesque, vale: a clear stream flows through the village, forming at intervals small, cascades; several genteel villas add to the general neatness of the place. Coal is obtained here; and imbedded among the red rock in the vale are found calcareous spar, iron-ore, branches of coral, and a few cornua ammonis. On Blacker's hill are vestiges of a quadrangular intrenchment, enclosing about fifteen acres; and near it are several tumuli: between these and Broadway are three subterranean cavities, supposed to have been iron pits; but called by the inhabitants "The Fairy Slats." .