Description
Buckland-Ripers, a parish in Dorsetshire, 2 miles from Broadway station on the Abbotsbury branch of the G.W.R. It includes part of Nottington hamlet. Post town, Dorchester ; money order office, Broadway; telegraph office, Upway. Acreage, 1255 ; population, 143. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £165 with residence. The church is good.
Parish Church
The church of St. Nicholas is a small fabric of stone in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a western turret containing one bell: there are 100 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1665.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Nottington, a village in Broadway and Buckland Elpers parishes, Dorsetshire, near the river Wey, 2 1/2 miles N by W of Weymouth. It has a sulphurous spa, but it has fallen into disuse as a medicinal spring.
