a town of the hundred of Brownshall and the division of Sherborne, in the county of Dorset, 112 miles from London. It has some trade in making stockings, and much good stone is found near to it. The market is on Tuesday, but thinly attended. The inhabitants were, in 1801, 1254; in 1811, 1421; in 1821, 1671; and in 1831, 1773.