THOMSON, a parish in the hundred of COOMBSDITCH, Blandford (North) division of the county of DORSET, 7 miles (S. by E.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 43 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, annexed to that of Anderston, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £4. 8. 9. The church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a small brick building without a tower, circular at the east end: it was wholly rebuilt and pewed by Archbishop Wake.