CHILLINGTON, a parish in the southern division of the hundred of PETHERTON, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (W. by N.) from Crewkerne, containing 270 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, endowed with £ 600 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of Earl Poulett. The church is dedicated to St. James.