CANFORD (GREAT), a parish in the hundred of
COGDEAN, Shaston (East) division of the county of
DORSET, %% miles (S. E. by E.) from Wimborne-Minster,
comprising the chapelry of Kingston, and the tythings of
Longfleet andParkston, and containing 2696 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, and a royal peculiar (including
the town and county of the town of Poole, which was
formerly in this parish), within the jurisdiction of the
lord of the manor, rated in the king's books at £ 11.9.9,,
and in the patronage of G, T. Brice, Esq. The church
is a small building on a singular plan; it has a nave and a
chancel, with a north aisle to each, and the tower is situated
between these two aisles j there is also a south
aisle to-the nave and a south chapel to the chancel: one
hundred and sixty-one additional sittings, one hundred
and twenty-one of which are free, have been recently
erected, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of
churches and chapels having granted £ 100 for that purpose.
The navigable river Stour runs on the north of
this parish, where it is crossed by a bridge on the Poole
and Wimborne road.