LOCKING, a parish in the hundred of WINTERSTOKE, county of SOMERSET, 6 miles (N. W.) from Axbridge, containing 198 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books at £5. 6. 10., endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty. The church, dedicated to St. Augustine, is a modern structure, built principally at the expense of the Society of Merchant Adventurers of Bristol, who are trustees of Colston charity in Bristol and, as such, patrons of this benefice.