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Cucklington is a village and parish, situated on the side of a hill, and lies on the South East edge of the Hundred and County on the Dorset border. The village is 3 miles east from Wincanton. The parish Boundaries are shared with Wincanton to the west, Stoke Trister to the North West, Penselwood to the North. Then around to the eastern side with Gillingham and Buckhorn Western in Dorset. The parish is in the the Eastern Division of the County, Norton Ferris hundred, Wincanton petty sessional division, union and county court district, Bruton district of the rural deanery of Castle Cary, archdeaconry of Wells and diocese of Bath and Wells. The area the parish covers is about 1,706 acres.

The following description was made by the Rev'd J Collinsonin 1791 - To the Southeast of Stoke Trister lies Cucklington, situated on high ground, on the top of a north slope of a steep and lofty ridge, called Clay Hill, which in this part is the boundary of the counties of Somerset and Dorset. From the top of this hill, and from the parish church yard, to the south and west, the prospect is very extensive, rich, and beautiful. The whole number of houses in this parish is fortyseven, and of inhabitants two hundred and fifty. Fortytwo of these houses form an irregular straggling street near the church, the rest stand singly. There are several fine springs on the street side, the lands are mostly arable, the soil under the hill a wet cold clay.

The population in the Parish did vary during the 19th century, rising then falling back, then rising again slightly, before the gradual decline set in that is common to many rural communities from the early 20th century. By 1991 the population had fallen to 173. - The following figures are mainly from census records.