ANDERSTON, or ANDERSON, a parish in the northern division of the hundred of COOMBS-DITCH, Blandford (North) division of the county of DORSET, 6 miles (S.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 78 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £6. 19. 1., and in the patronage of L. D. G. Tregonwell, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.