FROOME-VAUCHURCH, a parish in the hundred of TOLLERFORD, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 7 miles (N.W. by W.) from Dorchester, containing 105 inhabitants, The living is a rectory, united in 1772 to that of Batcombe, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £7.11. 0., and in the joint patronage of the Dowager Countess of Sandwich and the Marquis of Cleveland. George Browne, in 1774, gave a rent-charge of £21 per annum, for teaching children.