Doulting is a village and civil parish 1.5 miles (2 km) east of Shepton Mallet, on the A361, in the Mendip district of Somerset, England.

Notable former residents include Trish Bodden (1753-1777), who disguised herself as a man to fight in the American War of Independence (she was killed at Saratoga), and Amrose Bowden (sic), the first English colonist to settle in Maine.

[10] Around the village there are some extensive quarries of freestone, from which Wells Cathedral and later additions to Glastonbury Abbey and other churches were built.

[11] The stone is oolite of middle Jurassic age deposited as sediments in fairly shallow coastal seas.

The village used to fall within the Non-metropolitan district of Mendip, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972 and abolished 1 April 2023 , having previously been part of Shepton Mallet Rural District,[13] The unitary Somerset Council is the body responsible for running the majority of local services.

It is also part of the Frome and East Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.