TINCLETON, a parish in the hundred of FIDDLETOWN, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 5 miles (E.) from Dorchester, containing 142 inhabitants. The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £5. 11. 8. Mrs. Sturt was patroness in 1802. The church is a small structure, the burial-place of the Baynards of Cliff, of which family it contains several sepulchral memorials. The parish is bounded on the south by the river Frome.