TINTINHULL, a parish in the hundred of TINTINHULL,
county of SOMERSET, 2 miles (S. W.) from IIchester,
containing, with the tything of Stock-Dennis,
398 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and
Wells, endowed with £600 private benefaction, £400
royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Right Hon.W. Arbuthnot. The church
is dedicated to St. Margaret. The old Roman Fosse-way
passes through the parish, which is bounded on the
north by the navigable river Ivel. Stock-Dennis was
anciently a very populous place, but at present it contains
only two families.