HASELBURY-BRYAN, a parish forming, with the parish of Fifehead-Neville, a detached portion of the hundred of Pimperne and of the division of Blandford (North), being locally in Cerne sub-division of the county of DORSET, 10 miles (W.N.W.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 574 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £19. 13. 9., and in the patronage of the Duke of Northumberland. The church is dedicated to St. James. Twenty-four acres of land were left by some person unknown, the rental of which is divided amongst the most deserving poor.

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