OBORNE, a parish in the hundred of SHERBORNE,
Sherborne division of the county of DORSET, lj mile
(N. E. by E.) from Sherborne, containing 123 inhabitants.
The living is a discharged vicarage, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, rated in the
king's books at £6.5. 10., and in the patronage of Earl
Digby. The church is dedicated to St. Cuthbert.