CERNE (NETHER), a parish in the hundred of CERNE, TOTCOMBE, and MODBURY, Cerne sub-division of the county of DORSET, 5¾ miles (N.N.W.) from Dorchester, containing 60 inhabitants.

The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, endowed with £40 per annum private benefaction, and £600 parliamentary grant. F. J. Browne, Esq. was patron in 1824. There is a small endowment for the instruction of children.

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