ARNE, a chapelry in the parish of HOLY-TRINITY-WAREHAM,
hundred of HASILOR, Blandford (South)
division of the county of DORSET, 4 miles (E. by N.)
from Wareham, containing 134 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, and in the patronage of
the Rector of Wareham. The chapel is dedicated to
St. Nicholas. The village stands on the shore of Poole
harbour, between Wareham and Brownsey island. On
the summit of an eminence connected with a bank of
gravel or pebbles, extending north-eastward into the
harbour, there is a large barrow, which has been used
as a beacon.