TOLLER-FRATRUM, a parish in the hundred of
TOLLERFORD, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET,
9 miles (N. W. by W.) from Dorchester, containing
37 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with
the perpetual curacy of Winford-Eagle annexed, in the
archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated
in the king's books at £10. 6., and in the patronage of
F. J. Browne, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Basil.
Near the road leading to Maiden-Newton are slight
traces of . an ancient intrenchment, upon an eminence
called White Sheet; and on Farn down a barrow was
opened, many years since, which contained seventeen
urns, full of firm bones and black ashes.; George
Brown,. in 1772, left a rent-charge of £21, to be applied
in support of a school for the children of this
parish and that of Toller-Porcorum. This parish formerly
belonged to the brethren of the. order of St. John
of- Jerusalem, whence it derived its distinguishing appellation.