CHILFROOM, a parish in the hundred of TOLLERFORD, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 9 miles (N.W. by W.) from Dorchester, containing 106 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £5. J. I. Lockhart, Esq. was patron in 1824. The church is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. A charity school was founded in 1774, by George Brown, who endowed it with a rent-charge of £21 per annum, for teaching poor children of the parish.

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