HALSTOCK, a parish and liberty in the Sherborne
division of the county of DORSET, 6 miles (N.E.
by N.) from Beaminster, containing 447 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage
of Lyme-Regis, in the peculiar jurisdiction of
the Prebendary of Lyme and Halstock in the Cathedral
Church of Salisbury, endowed with £400 royal
bounty, and £ 200 parliamentary grant. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary.