Marshwood
MARSHWOOD, a parish, in the hundred of Whitchurch-Canonicorum, union of Beaminster, Bridport division of Dorset, 4ΒΌ miles (W. S. W.) from Beaminster; containing 554 inhabitants. This place, which takes its name from the marshy woody vale in which it is situated, was anciently an honour, the only one in the county, and the head of a barony. The living is annexed, with the livings of Chideock and Stanton St. Gabriel, to the vicarage of Whitchurch-Canonicorum. The church, which fell down in 1662, has been recently rebuilt.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.