LITTON-CHENEY, a parish in the hundred of UGGSCOMBE, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 6¾ miles (E.S.E.) from Bridport, containing 424 inhabaitants.

The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £33. 7. 8½., and in the patronage of the Rev. James COX, D. D. The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is in the later style of English architecture, and has a fine tower with battlements and pinnacles. In 1690, Robert Thormer bequeathed £25 per annum for the maintenance of a free school, and part of £75 per annum for apprenticing poor children of the parish of Litton, the towns of Dorchester and Southampton, and the city of Salisbury. In 1771, Thomas Hollis added £5 per annum for a schoolmaster's residence.

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