PARLEY (WEST), a parish in that part of the
hundred of CRANBORNE which is in the Shaston (East)
division of the county of DORSET, 6 miles (E. S. E.)
from Wimborne Minster, containing 204 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset,
and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at
£6. 17. 6. Thomas Deverell, Esq. and others were
patrons in 1798. There is a place of worship for Independents.
The navigable river Stour flows past the
village.