MARNHULL, a parish in the hundred of STURMINSTER-NEWTON-CASTLE, Sturminster division of the county of DORSET, 6 miles (W.S.W.) from Shaftesbury, containing 1273 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £31. 6. 10½. The Rev. H. Place was patron in 1778. The church is dedicated to St. Gregory. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.

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