CORSCOMBE, a parish, in the hundred of BEAMINSTER-FORUM-and-REDHONE,
Bridport division of the
county of DORSET, 3 miles (N. E.) from Beaminster,
containing 632 inhabitants. The living is a rectory,
in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol,
rated in the king's books at £21. 3. 4., and in the patronage
of the Rev. J. Munden. The church, dedicated
to St. Michael, is a neat modern structure, erected about
one hundred and fifty. years since. The village is situated
on the north side of a hill, and commands extensive
views over the county of Somerset to the Bristol
channel, and the inountains of Wales. The court-house,
belonging to John Disney, Esq., lord of the manor,
and now occupied as a farm-house, is nearly encompassed
by a moat, over which there was formerly a
drawbridge. .