COMPTON-ABBAS, or WEST-COMPTON, a parish in the hundred of CERNE-TOTCOMBE-and-MODBURY, Cerne subdivision of the county of DORSET, 9 miles (W. N. W.) from Dorchester, containing 80 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £ 8.0.5., and in the patronage of D. R. Mitchell, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. Compton- Abbas derives its adjunct from having once formed part of the possessions of Milton abbey, and is termed West Compton from its relative position to East Compton.