Description
Chalbury, a parish in Dorsetshire, about 3 miles from the Roman road from Dorchester, 5 miles SW from Verwood station on the L. & S.W.R. and 5 north from Wimborne, under which it has a post office; money order and telegraph office, Witchampton. Acreage, 818; population of the civil parish, 147; of the ecclesiastical, 164. It includes Didlington tithing. Part of the land is high, and has an ancient entrenchment, and commands a fine view of the sea. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £152 with residence. In 1886 a detached part of this village, known as Uddens, was amalgamated with Wimborne Minster.
Parish Church
The church, sitting on a hill, is a building of flint and rubble, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch and a turret containing one bell: there are about 75 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1629.
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Didlington, a tithing in Chalbury parish, Dorsetshire, 4 1/2 miles NNE of Wimborne-Minster.
