Description
Alderholt, a tithing and a chapelry in Cranborne parish, Dorset. The tithing lies on the verge of the county, 4 1/2 miles E of Cranborne, and 5 1/2 N of Ringwood railway station, and has a post office under Salisbury; money order office, Fordingbridge; telegraph office, Daggens Road (R.S.) Population, 696. The chapelry includes the tithing, but is larger, and was constituted in 1849. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £123. The church was built by the Marquis of Salisbury.
Parish Church
The church of St James, at Daggans, erected by the Marquess of Salisbury, is a building of local sandstone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, western porch, and a turret containing one bell: there are 150 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1849.
