PULHAM (EAST), a parish in the hundred of
BUCKLAND-NEWTON, Cerne subdivision of the county
of DORSET, 7 miles (S. E.) from Sherborne, containing,
with the manor of West Pulham, 272 inhabitants. The
living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and
diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £ 18.17.11.
Joseph Haseley, Esq. was patron in 1813. The church
is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket. A school is partly
supported by some trifling donations.