CHALBURY, a parish in the hundred of BADBURY, Shaston (East) division of the county of DORSET, 5 miles (N. by E.) from Wimborne-Minster, containing 135 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £7. 10. 2½. The Earl of Pembroke was patron in 1815. The village is situated on rising ground, commanding a fine view of the Needles and the British channel.

A particular sort of fine sand, used by founders, is obtained here. At Didlington, in this parish, there was anciently a chapel, now a farm-house, near which foundations of houses are often discovered in turning up the ground.

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