CRITCHELL (LONG), a parish in the hundred of KNOWLTON, Shaston (East) division of the county of DORSET, 6½ miles (W. S.W.) from Cranborne, containing 108 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, with which the rectory of Moore-Critchell, was united in 1774, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £12. 13. 8½. Charles Sturt, Esq. was patron in 1820. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has a tower at the west end, with a massive buttress on its north side, in which there is a niche, and beneath it three shields much defaced. Long Critchell, which received its distinguishing appellative from its greater length in comparison with the adjoining parish of Moore-Critchell, is divided into two tythings, called Critchell-Gouis and Critchell-Lucy, so called from their ancient lords.

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