CERNE (UP), a parish in the hundred of SHERBORNE,
being a detached portion of the Sherborne division
of the county of DORSET, 9 miles (N. N. W.) from
Dorchester, containing 84 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and
diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £5.18.4.,
and in the patronage of J. White, Esq.