KILVE, a parish in the hundred of WILLITON-and-FREEMANNERS, county of SOMERSET, llf miles (N. W. by W.) from Bridg-water, containing 263 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Stringston, in the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £9.16.8. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.