STRINGSTON, a parish in the hundred of CANNINGTON,
county of SOMERSET, 10 miles (W. N. W.)
from Bridg-water, containing 131 inhabitants. The living
is a vicarage, with the rectory of Kilve united, in
the archdeaconry of Taunton, and diocese of Bath and
Wells. There is a place of worship for Independents.
In the neighbourhood is an ancient fortification, called
Danes-burrow, or Douseborough, Castle, with a double
embankment and wide ditch; it is about three quarters
of a mile in circumference, and is wholly covered with
oak coppice wood, among which, a praetorium may be
distinctly traced. There is a trifling bequest by George
Paddon, in 1734, for the education of children.