CUCKLINGTON, a parish (formerly a market
town) in the hundred of NORTON-FERRIS, county of
SOMERSET, 2 miles (E. by S.) from Wincanton, containing,
with Clapton-Forms, 320 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, with that of Stoke-Trister united, in
the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and
Wells, rated in the king's books at £12. 19. 4., and
in the patronage of John Phelips, Esq. The church is
dedicated to St, Lawrence. There is a small school, in
which four poor children are educated, endowed with
land producing £1. 5. a year, the bequest of Thomas
Knight, in 1722. A license for a market on Tuesday,
and a fair annually on the eve, day, and morrow of the
festival of All Saints, and the seven succeeding days,
was granted in the 32nd of Edward I., to Henry de
Ortiaco,, or L'Orti, lord of the manor, but both have
been discontinued.