A Topographical Dictionary of England, Samuel Lewis, London 1831

Dorsetshire

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STEEPLETON-PRESTON, formerly a parish, now considered extra-parochial, in the hundred of PIMPERNE, Blandford (North) division of the county of DORSET, 4¼ miles (N.N.W.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 23 inhabitants.

The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £6. 18. 4., endowed with £200 royal bounty. P. Beckford, Esq. was patron in 1810. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.

Volume 4, page 172

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