ASKERSWELL, a parish in the hundred of EGGERTON,
Bridport division of the county of DORSET,
4 miles (E.) from Bridport, containing 190 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset,
and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at
£9- 2. 6., and in the patronage of the Rev. Edward
Foyle. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.