BUCKLAND-NEWTON, a parish in the hundred of
BUCKLAND-NEWTON, Cerne .subdivision-of the county
of DORSET, comprising the tythings of Brockhampton
with Knowle, Buckland-Newton, Duntish, Mintern
Parva, and Plush, and containing 843 inhabitants, of
which number, 275 are in the tything of Buckland-New-:
ton, 10? miles (N.) from Dorchester. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of
Bristol, rated in the king's books at £16.19.9., and in
the patronage of the Dean and Chapter pi" Wells. The
church, dedicated to the Holy Rood, is partly in the
early, and partly in the later, style of English architecture,
and has lately received an addition of one hundred
and twenty sittings, the Incorporated Society for
the enlargement of churches and chapels having granted
£50 for that purpose.