WINTERBOURNE-CAME, a parish partly in the
hundred of CULLIFORD-TREE, Dorchester division, and
partly within the liberty of FRAMPTON, Bridport division,
of the county of DORSET, 2 miles (S. E. by S.)
from Dorchester, containing, with the tything of Cripton.,
54 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, to which
that of Winterbourne-Farringdon was united, in 1751,
in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol,
rated jointly in the king's books at £15.5., and
in the patronage of Lady C. Darner. The church is
dedicated to St. Peter. Here was anciently a small
Benedictine nunnery, supposed to have been a cell to
the abbey of Caen in Normandy.