BABINGTON, a parish in the hundred of KILMERSDON, county of SOMERSET, 5 miles ("W. N. W.) from Frome, containing 156 inhabitants. The living is.a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £10, and in the patronage of J. Twyford Jolliffe, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Margaret. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. Coal and limestone are found in the neighbourhood^ A school for poor children is endowed with £15 per annum, bequeathed in 1758, by Elizabeth Long.