WOTTON-ABBAS, a liberty in the parish and
hundred of WHITCHURCH-CANONICORUM, Bridport division
of the county of DORSET, 4 miles (N. E.by N.).
from Lyme-Regis. The population is returned with the
parish. The liberty is of-great extent, stretching from
the river Char to the Ax, which bounds the counties of
Devon and Dorset. Courts leet and baron are held
here; and an annual-fair, granted in the 7th of Queen
Anne, on the Wednesday before the festival of. St. John
the Baptist, is kept on a lofty-hill, called Lambert's
Castle the summit of which, in the form- of the letter
D, is fortified with triple trenches and ramparts, enclosing-
twelve acres, and having several entrances.