Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset / Compiled from the best and most ancient historians, inquisitions post mortem, and other valuable records and mss. in the public offices, and libraries, and in private hands. With a copy of Domesday book and the Inquisitio Gheldi for the county: interspersed with some remarkable particulars of natural history; and adorned with a correct map of the county, and views of antiquities, seats of the nobility and gentry, &c. By John Hutchins, M.A.

  • John Hutchins
Date:
1774
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Credit: The history and antiquities of the county of Dorset / Compiled from the best and most ancient historians, inquisitions post mortem, and other valuable records and mss. in the public offices, and libraries, and in private hands. With a copy of Domesday book and the Inquisitio Gheldi for the county: interspersed with some remarkable particulars of natural history; and adorned with a correct map of the county, and views of antiquities, seats of the nobility and gentry, &c. By John Hutchins, M.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the Tea breezes, which alfo correct the afperity of the winter; the northern hills being often covered with fnow, while the fouthern parts are open and free, as far as their influence reaches* Rivers and Brooks which water and enrich this county! ALLEN rifes a little above Winborn All Saints, paffes by Winborn St. Giles, Knolton, More Crichil, Wichampton, Barnefly, and Stanbridge% and falls into the Stour a little below Winborn. It takes in Horton Beck, and theCranborn, and a little above Knolton receives the Terig, a brook from Guffage St. Andrew. Mr. Baxter derives the name of Elain, a river in Montgomerylhire, from Elain, a fawn, denoting its fwiftnefs. In the E. part of Winborn it divides into two branches, over which are two little bridges, called Ifebrook, or Eajtbrook, of which the eafterii has three, the other two arches. It has over it another called IValford bridge of fix arches in the N. part of the town. AX or EXE. Hollinfhead r fays it rifes out of an hill called Axnol, belonging to Sir Giles Strangeways, near Cheddington, thence runs to Mofterton, whence it goes to Feborough, Clapton, Wayford bridge, Winfham and Ford, and eroding an angle of this county, pafles to Axminfler, thence to Mufbury, Culliford, and Axmouth, and runs into the fea at Ax. I/eland fays 5 “ it rifes a mile earft ot Beminfter, at Axnoll, a ground belonging to Sir Giles Strangeways, in a moor on the hanging of an hill, and thence runs S. W. four miles to Ford abbey, which hands on its further bank in Deyonfhire. And hereabouts it is a limes to Devon and Somerfet.” There iflue out of that hill three fprings, which take their courfe three dif¬ ferent ways. This is the principal, which takes its name from the place; the other two are Birr, and that which goes into Somerfetlhire. At Ford it receives a rill from the E. by Hawkchurcb, and foon after another from the N. W. from Wambroke, by Churchfloke. Above Culliford it meets with a water that rifes above Cot- leigh, and goes from thence by Widworthy, and Culliton, and there receiving a rill proceeds the confluence above Culliford bridge into Ax, and thence with it to the fea. Below Axmin¬ fler it erodes the Yare which comes from Buckland by Whitftanton, Yarcomb, Longbridge, Stockland, and Kilmington bridge, at which laft it receives a brook that comes from the S. by Dalwood t. B I RT, Coker uj called Bride by Hollinfhead, whofays of it thatit rifes at Axnol, and palling by Beminfter, Parnham, Netherbury, and Melplafh, falls into the fea below Bridport, w’here it receives two rivulets from the E. in one chanel: (one of which rifes E. of Nettlecomb, and goes by Poor- flock and Milton ; the other at Alkerfwell, by Long Loders -,) and as it runs into the main fea, takes in on the W. the Simene that comes from Simondfbury, and all three fall into the fea below Bridport, leaving a pretty havenet w. Leland fays, it rifes a little more than half a mile to the N. above Beminfter, runs by the E. end of the town, under a little ftone bridge of two pretty arches thence a mile lower to Netherbury, three miles lower to Bridport bridge, and a mile lower by the S. into the fea at Bridport harbour, which is formed by it. Nature, adds Hollinf¬ head, hath fet the mouth of this river in manner between two hills, fo that a little coft would make a haven there. A rill from Poorftock falls into it at Bradpole r. Two brooks in one ftream, one of which rifes at Afkerfwell, fall into a third at Bradpole, and all three into the Birt z. Bride alfo rifes at Little Brldy, runs by Longbridy, Berwick,a nd Graceflon, and falls into the lea below Burton cliff. From Litton it receives a lmall brook. Plollinfhead a without men¬ tioning its name deferibes it as falling into the fea near Byrton. Bredy is fometimes confounded with the former, but their courfes are very different; this runs E. and W. the other N. and S. though they fall into the fea not far from one another. Calf, rifes at Pen, goes by Wickhampton to Moreland, Stapleford [in Stalbridge,] feven miles from Wickhampton, in its way palling by Wincaunton and Five Bridges, and runs into Stour below Stour Provofl. Coker makes it rife at Wincaunton, and after palling by Kington and Stalbridge fall into Stour below Fifhide Magdalen z. q Hollinfhead, p. 57. Coker p. 114. iij. r P. 58. £9. * Itin. v. I. U. p. 27. 43. 1 Hojlinfb. ib. * Coker p. 19, w HoUinlh. p. 58. * Itin. v. III. t. 45 p. 75. J Coker p. 26. 1 lb. p., 24. * Ubi fop. Car,