ADMISTON, or ATHELHAMPTON, a parish in the hundred of PIDDLETOWN, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 6 miles (E.N.E.) from Dorchester, containing 79 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with that of Burleston, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £2, and in the patronage of the Hon. W. T. L. P. Wellesley, This place is traditionally said to have been the principal residence of the Saxon kings of Wessex, but there is no satisfactory evidence of the truth of that opinion.