CLOSWORTH, a parish in the hundred of HOUNDSBOROUGH-BERWICK-and-COKER, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (S. by E.) from Yeovil, containing 187 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 £ 6. 8.11., and in the patronage of E. B. Portman, Esq. The church is dedicated to All Saints.