STINSFORD, a parish in the hundred of GEORGE, Dorchester division of the county of DORSET, 1¼ mile (E.N.E.) from Dorchester, containing 337 inhabitants.

The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £12. 17. 1., and in the patronage of the Earl of Ilchester. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.

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