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"Evershot is a small village and parish, in the hundred of Tollerford, situated midway between Beaminster and Cerne Abbas ; distant from London 129 miles by way of Sherborne. The village is a neat and clean little place, without possessing any thing worthy of especial notice. The river Frome rises in this parish, and a tributary stream to the Iver has its source on the north side of the hill here. The church, an ancient structure, was originally a chapel of ease to Frome St. Quintin, but the living is now independent of that parish. The principal seat in the neighbourhood is "Melbury house," the seat of the Earl of Ilchester. Formerly a market was held here on Saturday, but it has been discontinued some years; a fair is held on the 12th of May, for cattle, pigs and cloth. The parish contained, in 1821, 567 inhabitants." [Pigot & Co's Commercial Directory of Dorsetshire, 1830.]
Michael Day provides pictures and bibliography for Evershot church dedicated to St. Osmund as a part of UKOLN: The UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath.
Evershot from "The Dorset Page"