WRITHLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of
KILMERSDON, county of SOMERSET, 7 miles (N. W. by N.)
from Frome, containing 216 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells,
and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's
brooks at £5. 7. 85., and in the patronage of the Prebendary
of Writhlington in the Cathedral Church of
Salisbury. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdajene.
In this parish are extensive coal mines and
quarries of freestone; white lias and fullers' earth ate
also obtained here.