PUCKINGTON, a parish in the hundred of ABDICK-and-BULSTONE, county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (N.N.E.) from Ilminster, containing 220 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £7. 13. 3. The Bishop of Bath and Wells presented by lapse in 1787.