COKER (WEST), a parish in the hundred of HOUNDSBOROUGH-BERWICK-and-COKER, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (S. W. by W.) from Yeovil, containing 928 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £ 12.19.7., and in the patronage of Joseph Jekyll, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Martin. Almshouses for five poor persons were founded about 1719, pursuant to the will of Wil-' liana Ruddock, who endowed them with a rent-charge on his estates of 10s. per week.