MOSTERTON, a parish in the hundred of BEAMINSTER-
FORUM-and-REDHONE, Bridport division of the
county of DORSET, 4 miles (N. N. W.) from Beaminster,
containing 284 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, annexed to the rectory of South Perrot, in the
archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol. The
church has lately received an addition of one hundred
and fifty-six sittings, of which eighty are free, the
Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches
and chapels having granted £50 towards defraying tneexpense.