BLOXWORTH, a parish in the hundred of COOMBS-DITCH, Blandford (North) division of the county of DORSET, 5¼ miles (N.N.W.) from Wareham, containing 210 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £15. 7. 1. J. Pickard, Esq. was patron in 1781. The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. On a hill, called Woolsbarrow, situated on the heath, about a mile toward the east, are vestiges of a small fortification, supposed to be of Danish origin, the ramparts and trenches of which may be traced; near it there are several tumuli.

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