CATHERSTON-LEWSTON, a parish in the hundred of WHITCHURCH-CANONICORUM, Bridport division of the county of DORSET, 2¾ miles (N.E.) from Lyme-Regis, containing 27 inhabitants.

The living is a discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £2. 16. 10½., and endowed with £400 royal bounty. John Ross, Esq. was patron in 1826. The church is dedicated to St. Mary.

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