BOVERIDGE, or BEVERIDGE, a tything in the
parish of CRANBORNE, in that part of the hundred of
CRANBORNE which is in the Shaston (East) division of
the county of DORSET, if mile (N. N. B.) from Granborne,
with which the population is returned. An almshouse
for three persons has been founded and endowed
here by some member of the family of Hooper, whose
descendants retain the right of appointing the inmates;
there is also a small stipend for a chaplain.