LYTCHETT-MINSTER, a chapelry in the parish
of STURMINSTER-MARSHALL, hundred of COGDEAN,
Shaston (East) division of the county of DORSET, 5 miles
(N.E. byN.) from Wareham, containing 544 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, with the vicarage of
Sturminster-Marshall, in the jurisdiction of the peculiar
court of Sturminster-Marshall. The chapel is demolished.
This chapelry is bounded on the south-east by
Poole harbour, and on the south by Rock Lee river,
which latter is crossed by a bridge, and falls into Lytchett
bay. On the south side of the village is a very
large tumulus; here was formerly a beacon.