Description
Kingston Russell, a quondam parish, now a hamlet or extra-parochial liberty in Dorsetshire, adjacent to Long Bredy, 8 miles W by N of Dorchester. A Roman station is supposed to have been here. Kingston Russell House stands in a sort of oasis among furze-clad hills, was for four centuries the seat of the Russells, ancestors of the Duke of Bedford, and is now a farmhouse. A church or chapel was formerly here, but has disappeared.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
