NETHERBURY, a parish in the hundred of BEAMINSTER-FORUM-and-REDHONE,
Bridport division of
the county of DORSET, 2 miles (S.S.W.) from Beaminster,
comprising the tythings of. Aish, Bowood,, Melplash,
and Netherbury, and containing 1954 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage with Beaminster, in the peculiar
jurisdiction and patronage of the Prebendary of Netherbury
in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, rated in the
king's books at £41.15. The church, dedicated to St.
Mary, is in the later style of English architecture.
There was formerly a chapel of, ease at Mangerton, in
this parish, which has long been desecrated and in ruins,
A great quantity of cider is made in the parish. There
is an endowment for a free grammar school, left by an
unknown benefactor.