CHARBOROUGH, a parish in the hundred of
LOOSEBARROW, Shaston (East) division of the county
of DORSET, 6J miles (S. S. E.) from Blandford-Forum.
The population is returned with the parish of Morden.
The living is a discharged rectory, annexed to the vicarage
of Morden, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and
diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £?. 3.6.,
and in the patronage of Richard Erie Drax, Esq. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, is now used only as
the burial-place of the Drax family. Over the- door
of a small arched building in the grounds of Charborough
House is an inscription, dated 1686, commemorating
the meeting of some patriotic individuals, who
here concerted the plan of the Revolution, in 1688.