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Winterbourne-Monkton

WINTERBOURNE-MONKTON, a parish, in the union of Dorchester, hundred of Culliford-Tree, Dorchester division of Dorset, 2 miles (S. W. by S.) from Dorchester; containing 91 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £8; net income, £157; patron, the Earl of Ilchester. An alien priory subordinate to the priory of West, or de Vasto, of the order of Cluny, is said to have existed here.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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