FROOME-VAUCHURCH, a parish in the hundred of TOLLERFORD, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 7½ miles (N.W. by W.) from Dorchester, containing 105 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, united in 1772 to that of Batcombe, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £7. 11. 0½., and in the joint patronage of the Dowager Countess of Sandwich and the Marquis of Cleveland.

George Browne, in 1774, gave a rent-charge of £21 per annum, for teaching children.

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