CHETTLE, a parish in the hundred of MONCKTON
up WIMBORNE, Shaston (East) division of the county
of DORSET, 7 miles (N. B.) from Blandford-Forum, containing
132 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of
Bristol, rated in the king's books at £8. 2. 9., and in
the patronage of the Lord of the Manor. The church,
dedicated to St. Mary, is partly in the early and partly
in the later style of English architecture. Here is a
fine old mansion, built in Sir JohnVanbrugh's style, but
it is unoccupied.