COMPTON (OVER), a parish in the hundred of SHERBORNE, Sherborne division of the county of DORSET, 85 miles (W. by N.) from Sherborne, containing 140 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, with that of Nether Compton annexed, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £11. 9. 4-., and in the patronage of R. Gooden, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.