Description
Cucklington, a village and a parish in Somerset. The village stands on the boundary with Dorsetshire, 3 1/2 miles from Wincanton station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and was once a market-town. It has a post office under Bath; money order office, Wincanton; telegraph office, Sandley. Acreage of the civil parish, 1795; population, 290; of the ecclesiastical, 665. The living is a rectory, united with Stoke-Trister and Bayford, in the diocese of Bath and Wells ; joint net value, £324. The church is Early English ; consists of nave, aisles, transept, and chancel, with tower and spire, and is good. It was well restored in 1880.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
