ADMISTON or ATHELHAMPTON, a parish in the hundred of PIDDLETOWN, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 6¼ miles (E.N.E.) from Dorchester, containing 79 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory with Burlestone, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £2. The Hon. W. P. Wellesley was patron in 1818. This place is said to have been, at one period, the principal residence of the kings of Wessex.

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