Sherborne (St. Mary Magdalene)

SHERBORNE (St. Mary Magdalene), a parish, in the union of Northleach, Lower division of the hundred of Slaughter, E. division of the county of Gloucester, 6 miles (N. W. by W.) from Burford; containing 637 inhabitants, and supposed to contain about 2000 acres. Sherborne gives the title of Baron to the family of Dutton. The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Windrush united, valued in the king's books at £15. 6. 8.; net income, £194; patron and impropriator, Lord Sherborne. The tithes were commuted for land and a money payment in 1777. James Bradley, D.D., regius professor of astronomy, and astronomerroyal, was born here in 1692.