CATTISTOCK, a parish in the hundred of CERNE-TOTCOMBE-and-MODBURY,
Cerne subdivision of the
county of DORSET, 9 miles (N. W.) from Dorchester,
containing 382 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated
in the king's books at £13. 13. 9., and in the patronage
of P. Broadley, Esq. The church is dedicated to St.
Peter and St. Paul. On a hill in the eastern part of the
parish is an ancient circular fortification of about four
acres, called the Castle, surrounded by a double rampart,
with entrances at the north-east and west: towards
the middle of the area the ground rises into a long barrow;
and near the north entrance is a round tumulus,
the top of which consists of flint stones.