MELBURY-BUBB, a parish in the hundred of YETMINSTER, Sherborne division of the county of DORSET, 9¼ miles (S.S.W.) from Sherborne, containing, with the chapelry of Woolcombe, 129 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £11. 10. 5., and in the patronage of the Earl of Ilchester. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is built of flint and stone, chiefly in the later style, with a tower on the south side, which forms a porch; there are some remains of aneient stained glass. Woolcombe chapel has been demolished. On an eminence, called Bubb down, was formerly a beacon.

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