WOOTTON (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of
SHERBORNE, Sherborne division of the county of DORSET,
2 miles (S. E. by S.) from Sherborne, containing 64
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, endowed
with £200 private benefaction, and £400 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of Earl Digby. The church was
anciently a chapel of ease to the vicarage of Sherborne.