ALLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of GODDERTHORNE, Bridport division of the county of DORSET, fof a mile (N. W.) from Bridport, containing 1139 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, endowed with £ 1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rev. H. Fox. The church, dedicated to St. Swithin, has been lately rebuilt, and enlarged by an addition of six hundred sittings, of which two-thirds are free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted £400 towards defraying the expense. There is no burial-ground; the inhabitants inter their dead at Bridport, to which this was formerly a chapelry. Great quantities of hemp and flax are sown in the vicinity: a fair, chiefly for cheese and pedlary, is held on July 22nd. Two closes of land, containing thirty acres, are vested in trustees for the benefit of the poor in the almshouses of this parish and Charmouth. An hospital for lepers, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, was founded here, which at the dissolution, in 1553, was valued at £7. 8. 4.