STINSFORD, a parish in the hundred of GEORGE, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 1-J mile (E. N. E.) from Dorchester, containing 337 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £12. 17. 1., and in the patronage of the Earl of Ilchester. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.