MELBURY-OSMOND, a parish in the hundred of YETMINSTER, Sherborne division of the county of DORSET, 8¾ miles (S.W.) from Sherborne, containing 319 inhabitants.

The living is a discharged rectory, with which that of Melbury-Sampford was united in 1750, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £8. 3. 4., and in the patronage of the Earl of Ilchester. The church is dedicated to St. Osmond. A school for the instruction of poor children has an income of £15 per annum, the bequest of Mrs. Susannah Strangeways Horner, in 1754.

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