TURNERS-PUDDLE, a parish in the hundred of
HUNDREDSBARROW, Blandford (South) division of the
county of DORSET, 7 miles (N.W.) from Wareham,
containing 98inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury
rated in the king's books at.£7.13. 4., endowed
with,£200, private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty,
and in "the patronage of J. Frampton, Esq. The church,
dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was partly blown down
in 1758, and rebuilt in 1759. The river Piddle runs
through the parish.