Description
Anderson or Winterbourne-Anderstone, a parish in Dorset, on an affluent of the river Stour, 7 miles S of Blandford, and 5 from Bailey Gate station on the Somerset and Dorset railway. Acreage, 597; population, 66. Post town, Blandford; money order and telegraph office, Bere Regis. The chief residence is Anderson House. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £90.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Parish Church
The church of St Michael, having fallen into decay, was rebuilt in 1889 in the later Early English style in accordance with the original design. It consists of chancel, nave, south transept and a western turret containing 2 bells.
The register dates from the year 1650.
