WAMBROOK, a parish in the hundred of BEAMINSTER-FORUM-and-REDHONE,
Bridport division of the
county of DORSET, 1 mile (S. W.) from Chard, containing
201 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
peculiar jurisdiction of the Prebendary of Chardstock
in the Cathedral Church of Salisbury, rated in the
king's books at £8.7. 1., and in the patronage of Mrs.
Edwards. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, was anciently
a chapel to the vicarage of Chardstock.