Description
Buckhorn-Weston, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the verge of the county, 3 1/2 miles WSW of Gillingham station on the L. & S.W.R., and 4 SE of Wincanton. It has a post office under Bath; money order and telegraph office, Sandley. Acreage, 1705 ; population, 491. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; gross value, £273 with residence.
Parish Church
The church of St. John the Baptist is a building of stone, principally in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, north aisle, added in 1872, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, and containing 6 bells: there are the remains of a rood-loft and a tomb with recumbent male figure: the church was restored in 1872, and has sittings for 300 persons.
The register dates from the year 1657.
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