CAUNDLE (BISHOP), a parish in the hundred of
SHERBORNE, Sherborne division of the county of DORSET,
5 miles (S. E. by E.) from Sherborne, containing,
with Caundle-Wake, 312 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of
Bristol, rated in the king's books at £11.10., and in
the patronage of Earl Digby.