Description
Pulham, a parish in Dorsetshire, 5 1/2 miles NE by N of Cerne Abbas, and 7 from Sherborne station on the L. & S.W.R. It consists of two sections, E and W, and has a post office under Dorchester ; money order and telegraph office, Buckland Newton. Acreage, 2416; population, 266. The parish is a meet for the Blackmoor Vale Harriers. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £300 with residence. The church is ancient, and has been restored.
Parish Church
The church of St. Thomas à Becket is a building of stone in the Gothic style, consisting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower with 4 bells, the fourth bell having been added in 1884: all the windows are stained: the church was thoroughly restored in 1870, and affords 200 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1734.
