LING, a parish in the hundred of ANDERSFIELD though locally in that of Taunton and Taunton-Dean, county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (S.S.E.) from Bridgwater, containing, with part of the hamlet of Boroughbridge, 335 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £10. 8. 4. endowed with £600 private benefaction, £400 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant. Hill Dawes, Esq. was patron in 1806. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. Between the hamlet of Boroughbridge, part of which is in this parish, and the parish church, is the isle of Athelney, an elevation whereon is Alfred's monument, having been the noted retreat of that Saxon monarch during one of the Danish invasions. Here, about 888, Alfred founded a Benedictine abbey, and dedicated it to Our Saviour and St. Peter, the revenue of which, at the dissolution, amounted to £209. 0. 3.: many architectural remains, bones, and other ancient relics, have been dug up on the site of the conventual buildings, which appear to have been both extensive and magnificent. The navigable river Parret runs on the north-east, and the Tone on the south-east, of the parish, over which latter river is a bridge.