MAPPERTON, a parish in the hundred of BEAMINSTER-
FORUM-and-REDHONE, Bridport division of
the county of DORSET, 2 miles (S.E. by E.) from Beaminster,
containing 123 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury,
rated in the king's books at £8. 3. !. H. C.
Compton, Esq. was patron in 1822. The church, dedicated
to St. Mary, was, in 1291, styled a chapel to
Nether bury; it was rebuilt, in 1704, by Richard Broadrep,
Esq., and the interior handsomely fitted up: in
the chancel is a fine monument of the Broadreps, and
underneath it the family vault. There is a small churchyard,
but the substratum being rock, the inhabitants
bury at Netherbury, for which privilege they annually
pay a trifling acknowledgment.