CHALDON-HERRING, a parish in the liberty of
BINDON, locally in the hundred of Winfrith, Blandford
(South) division, of the county of DORSET, lOg miles
(W. S. W.) from Wareham, containing 240 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £8. 0. 10.,
endowed with £ 1400 royal bounty, and in the patronage
of Thomas Lyte, Esq. The church is dedicated to
St. Nicholas. This parish is bounded by the English
channel on the south, where there is a signal station.
Chaldon-Boys, or West Chaldon, now comprising only
one farm, was formerly a manor and a distinct parish;
the church having become desecrated, the living, a rectory,
was consolidated with the vicarage of Chaldon-
Herring, in 1446.