MONCKTON (TARRANT), a parish in the hundred of MONCKTON up WIMBORNE, Shaston (East) division of the county of DORSET, 4¼ miles (E.N.E.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 236 inhabitants.

The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Tarrant-Launceston, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £17. 16. 8., endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £300 parliamentary grant. J. Farquharson, Esq. was patron in 1822. The church is dedicated to All Saints. The river Tarrant runs through the parish, in which there was formerly a monastic establishment, whence the derivation of the name Monckton.

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