Description
Parley, West, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the river Stour, contiguous to Hants, 3 miles from Herne station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town and telegraph office, Wimborne ; money order office, Long Ham. Acreage, 3959; population of the civil parish, 334; of the ecclesiastical, 129. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. A large portion of the parish is heath. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £190. The church is ancient.
Parish Church
The church of All Saints is a very small Norman building of stone with traces of Saxon; it consists of chancel, nave, north porch, and a western turret, containing one bell: at the east of the church, beneath a circular stone, was buried the heart of the Lady of Lydlinch, who endowed the church, but on the rebuilding of the chancel in 1896 the urn containing the heart was removed from under the stone and placed on the top of it, where it now stands.
The register dates from the year 1715.
