HASLEBURY-PLUCKNETT, a parish in the hundred of HOUNDSBOROUGH-BERWICK-and-COKER, county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (N.E. by E.) from Crew- kerne, containing 768 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, rated in the king's books at £7, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Haslebury in the Cathedral Church of Wells. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. St. Walfric, a hermit, had a cell here, and dying in 1154, was interred in the parish church, and his tomb became the resort of pilgrims: a few years prior to his death, a monastery for canons Regular was founded here, but it was destroyed during the war between John and the barons.