AFF-PIDDLE, a parish in the hundred of HUNDRED'S-BARROW,
Blandford (South) division of the
county of DORSET, 9 miles (B. by N.) from Dorchester,
containing, with the tything of Bryant's-Piddle, 441 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the
archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated
in the king's books at £8. 14. 9-, endowed with £200
royal bounty, and in the patronage of J. Frampton,
Esq. Here is a free school, endowed with £10. 10. per
annum. On the summit of a hill, on the road from
Piddletown to Poole, there are one hundred and twelve
broad and deep pits, the largest of them sixty yards in
diameter, which, in the most rainy season, never retain
water: near them are some small tumuli.