BURSTOCK, a parish in the hundred of WHITCHURCH-CANONICORUM,
Bridport division of the county
of DORSET, 4 miles (W. N. W.) from Beaminster, containing
203 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of
Bristol, rated in the king's books at £5. 19. 4£., endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal
bounty, and in the patronage of John Bragge, Esq. The
church is dedicated to St. Andrew.