DUMMER, a parish in the hundred of BERMONDSPIT,
Basingstoke division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
5 miles (8.W.) from Basingstoke, containing 393 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at
£14. 12. 3. Thomas Terry, Esq. was patron in 1826.
The church, dedicated to All Saints, has a tower of wood.
John Millingate, in 1610, gave a house and a rent-
charge of £4 a year, for teaching six poor children; subsequent
bequests have increased the income to £15. 5.
which is paid to a schoolmaster for the free education
of twenty boys.