CHILFROOM, a parish in the hundred of TOLLERFORD,
Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, Q,
miles (N.W. by W.) from Dorchester, containing 106 in-,
habitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's
books at £5, and in the patronage of J. I. Lockhart,
Esq. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. A
charity school was founded, in 1774, by George Browa^
who endowed it with a rent-charge of £21, for teaching
poor children of the parish.