STRATTON, a parish in the hundred of GEORGE,
Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 3 miles
(N. W.) from Dorchester, containing, with the tything
of Grimstone, 262 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, annexed to that of Charminster, in the peculiar
jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £200
parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of J. Trenchard,
Esq. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a
lofty tower, but no chancel, the latter having been pulled
down in 1547. A Roman road from Dorchester to
Ilchester passes through the parish.