KINGSTON, a parish in the hundred of TINTINHULL, though locally in the southern division of the hundred of Petherton, county of SOMERSET, 1 mile (S.B.) from Ilminster, containing, with the hamlet of Allowenshay, 264 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £5. 10. 2. W. Harbin, Esq. was patron in 1817. The church is dedicated to All Saints. At Allowenshay, a place of great antiquity,.now a hamlet in this parish, there was formerly a church or chapel. Here was born Henry Jeanes, a learned divine and theological writer in the seventeenth century.