TOLLER-FRATRUM, a parish in the hundred of TOLLERFORD, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 9 miles (N.W. by W.) from Dorchester, containing 37 inhabitants.

The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Winford-Eagle annexed, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £10. 6., and in the patronage of F. J. Browne, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Basil.

Near the road leading to Maiden-Newton are slight traces of an ancient intrenchment, upon an eminence called White Sheet; and on Farn down a barrow was opened, many years since, which contained seventeen urns, full of firm bones and black ashes.

George Brown, in 1772, left a rent-charge of £21, to be applied in support of a school for the children of this parish and that of Toller-Porcorum. This parish formerly belonged to the brethren of the order of St. John of Jerusalem, whence it derived its distinguishing appellation.

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