CHARLTON-MARSHALL, a parish in the hundred
of COGDEAN, locally in that of Pimperne, Shaston (East)
division of the county of DORSET, -If mile (S. S. B.)
from Blandford-Forum, containing 304 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the rectory
of Spetisbury, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and
diocese of Bristol. The village is situated upon the navigable
river Stour: poor children are entitled to participate
in the benefit of education at Spetisbury free
school.