LACKINGTON (WHITE), a parish in the hundred
of ABDICK-and-BULSTONE, county of SOMERSET, 1
mile (E. N. E.) from Ilminster, containing 242 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry
of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and Wells,
rated in the king's books at £7. 10., endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and
in the patronage of the Prebendary of White Lackington
in the Cathedral Church of Wells. The church,
dedicated to St. Mary, has two small transepts and an
embattled western tower.