OSMINGTON, a parish in the hundred of CULLIFORD-TREE, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 4½ miles (N.E.) from Melcombe-Regis, containing 318 inhabitants.

The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £11. 0. 2½., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is dedicated to St. Osmond. The parish is bounded on the south by the English channel.

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