KELSTON, a parish in the hundred of BATH-FORUM, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (W.N.W.) from Bath, containing 248 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Bath, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £15. 9. 4., and in the patronage of Sir J. C. Hawkins. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas. A small sum was given by John Harrington, in 1725, for the instruction of children. The river Avon passes on the west and south of the parish. Sir John Harrington, a distinguished writer in the reign of Elizabeth, whose family seat was in this parish, died in 1612, and was interred in the church.