Bowood
BOWOOD, a tything, in the parish of Netherbury, union and hundred of Beaminster, Bridport division of Dorset, 2¾ miles (W. S. W.) from Beaminster. A chapel of ease, capable of accommodating upwards of 500 persons, was erected by subscription a few years since.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.