SHILLINGSTONE, or SHILLING-OKEFORD, a parish in the hundred of CRANBORNE, in a detached portion of the Shaston (West) division of the county of DORSET, 5¾ miles (N.W.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 430 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory in medieties, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, the first mediety rated in the king's books at £7. 9. 9½., and the second at £6. 16. 5½., and in the patronage of J. Thompson, Esq. The church, dedicated to the Holy Rood, has an embattled tower, crowned with pinnacles: it contains a small altar-tomb, erected, it is said, to the memory of the founder. The parish is bounded on the north by the river Stour.

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