BLOXWORTH, a parish in the hundred of COOMBS-DITCH,
Blandford (North) division of the county of
DORSET, 5 miles (N.N.W.) from Wareham, containing
210 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, rated in the
king's books at £15. 7 1., and in the patronage of J.
Pickard, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.
On a hill called Woolsbarrow, situated on the heath,
about a mile toward the east, are vestiges of a small
fortification, supposed to be of Danish origin, the ramparts
and trenches of which may be traced; near it
there are several tumuli.