Fontmell Magna

FONTMELL MAGNA, a village, a parish, and a sub-district in Shaftesbury district, Dorset.  The village stands 4 miles S of Shaftesbury, and 4 N by E of Shillingstone r. station; and has a post-office under Salisbury.  The parish includes also the tythings of Bedcester and Hartgrove; and bears the name of Fontmell Magna.  Acres, 2,853.  Real property, with Compton Abbas, £4,796.  Rated property of F. alone, £3,338.  Pop., 875.  Houses, 189.  The property is divided among a few.  The living is a rectory and a vicarage, united with the p. curacy of West Orchard, in the diocese of Salisbury.  Value, £440.  Patron, George Carr Glyn, Esq.  The church was built in 1864, on the site of a previous edifice; is in the later English style, after designs by Mr. Evans; and is richly ornamented.  There is a Wesleyan chapel. – The sub-district contains nine parishes.  Acres, 14,944.  Pop., 3,358.  Houses, 745.