Description
Batcombe, a parish in Dorsetshire, 2 miles ESE of Evershot station on the G.W.R., and 3 1/2 NW of Cerne-Abbas. It includes Newland tithing. Dorchester is the post town; money order and telegraph office, Evershot. Acreage, 1120 ; population, 123. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Frome-Vauchurch, in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £260 with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Sandwich. The church is old and small.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Parish Church
The church of St Mary is a small Gothic edifice of stone, restored in 1864, and consisting of chancel and nave, north porch and an embattled western tower containing 2 bells: there are 130 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1813.
