BARRINGTON, a parish in the southern division
of the hundred of PETHERTON, county of SOMERSET,
3 miles (N. E.) from Ilminster, containing 453 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells,
endowed with £ 800 private benefaction, and in the patronage
of the Rev. Dr. W. Palmer. Hemp and flax are
extensively cultivated here.