COMPTON (OVER), a parish in the hundred of SHERBORNE, Sherborne division of the county of DORSET, ****½ miles (W. by N.) from Sherborne, containing 149 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, with which the rectory of Nether Compton is annexed, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Dean of Salisbury, rated in the king's books at £11. 9. 4½. R. Gooden, Esq. was patron in 1824. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.

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