Blandford-St-Mary, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the river Stour, 1/2 a mile S of Blandford-Forum. Post town, Blandford, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 1895; population of civil parish, 375 ; of the ecclesiastical, 359. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury ; net value, £218 with residence. Patron, Worcester College, Oxford. The church contains a monument erected by Governor Pitt, grandfather of the great Earl of Chatham, to the memory of his father, some time rector of the parish. Dr Brown Willis the antiquary was a native.
