PIDDLETOWN, a parish in the hundred of PIDDLETOWN, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Dorchester, containing 961 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £31. 2. 11. The Rev. G. H. Templer was patron in 1822. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is a large structure with an embattled tower,, partly in the decorated, and partly in the later English, style; the font is curiously carved with trellice-work and foliage. This extensive parish is bounded on the north by the river Piddle, and had formerly a market, long since disused, and two fairs, which are still held on April 8th and October 29th, for horses, bullocks, hogs, and sheep.