Description
Hook, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the river Froom, 2 1/2 miles NW of Toller station on the G.W.R., and 4 E by S of Beaminster. It has a post office under Beaminster; money order and telegraph office, Beaminster. Acreage, 1255; population, 179. The manor belongs to the Earl of Sandwich. Hook Court is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £70 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Sandwich. The church is ancient, but was almost entirely rebuilt in 1875.
Parish Church
The church of St. Giles is an ancient building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, and an embattled south-western tower, containing one bell: in 1875 it was restored and almost entirely rebuilt, at the sole expense of Blanche late Countess of Sandwich, who died 20 March, 1894: there are 110 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1833, the previous one having been lost.
