MELCOMBE-HORSEY, a parish in the hundred
of WHITEWAY, Cerne subdivision of the county of
DORSET, 8 miles (W. S. W.) from Blandford-Forum,
containing 153 inhabitants. The living is a rectory
in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol,
rated in the king's books at £16.. Lord Rivers was
patron in 1814. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.
In the vicinity are the remains of the hamlet of Melcombe-
Bingham, consisting only of foundations of
houses. On an eminence, called Nettlecombe Tout, is a
square encampment, occupying a space of twenty acres.