MARSHWOOD, a chapelry in the parish of WHITCHURCH-CANONICORUM,
and hundred of WHITCHURCH-CANONICORUM, Bridport division
of the county of DORSET, 4 miles (w. S. W.) from Beaminster,
containing 532 inhabitants. The living is a
perpetual curacy, with the vicarage of Whitchurch-Canonicorum,
in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese
of Bristol. This place, which takes its name from the
marshy, woody vale in which it is situated, was anciently
an honour, the only one in the county, and the
head of a barony.