BINEGAR, a parish in the hundred of WELLS- FORUM, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N.) from Shepton- Mallet, containing 363 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, within the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Wells, rated in the king's books at £13. 12. s£., and in the patronage of the Prebendary of Whitchurch in the Cathedral Church of Wells. - The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. A large fair, noted for the sale of horses, formerly held at Wells, was removed hither in the seventeenth century, in consequence of the plague, and is held during the whole of Whitsunweek.