CORTON-DENHAM, a parish in the hundred of
HORETHORNE, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (N.) from
Sherborne, containing 469 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese
of Bath and Wells, rated in the king's books
at £ 13. 9. 4., and in the patronage of E. B. Portman,
Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew.
Some workmen, in 1723, discovered a Roman urn in
the vicinity, containing about two quarts of coins, in
good preservation, of the emperors, from Valerian and
Galienus to Probus.