Description
Castleton, a parish in Dorset, on the L. & S.W.R., adjoining Sherborne on the east, which is the post town. Acreage, 71; population, 51. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £81.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Parish Church
The church of St. Mary Magdalene is a small building of stone, consisting of nave or four bays and aisles, and a western bell turret containing one bell: the material for the building is supposed to have been taken from the castle ruins: there are 220 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1715.
