Description
Broad Mayne or Main-Martel, a parish in Dorsetshire, 4 miles SE of Dorchester, under which it has a post, money order, and telegraph office. Acreage, 997; population, 479. The living is a rectory annexed to the rectory of West Knighton in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is dedicated to St Martin. There is also a Wesleyan chapel. The industry is chiefly agricultural; there are also brickfields in the parish.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Parish Church
The church of St. Martin, standing in the centre of the village, is a building of stone in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, north aisle and south tower containing one bell: the entrance is through the base of the tower: there are 190 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1664.
