LOPEN, a parish in. the southern division of the hundred of PETHERTON, county of SOMERSET, 3 miles (N. N. W.) from Crewkerne, containing 425 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Tauntpn, and diocese of Bath and Wells, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The manufacture of coarse linen is carried on to a limited extent.