Description
Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon, a parish in Dorsetshire, near the coast, 5 miles SW from Wool railway station, and 9 1/2 WSW of Wareham. It has a post office under Winfrith Newburg; money order and telegraph office, Winfrith Newburg. Acreage, 3095; population, 301. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £46. There is a coastguard station at White Nothe, commonly called White Nose.
Parish Church
The church of St. Nicholas is a small building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, north porch, and an embattled western tower containing 3 bells: in 1879 the church was thoroughly restored and reseated with open benches; the pulpit, lectern, prayer desk, communion table and railings were designed and made by the Rev. William Gildea M.A. rector of Upwey, Dorchester: the ancient font, presumed to be Saxon, was replaced in the church about 1898: there are 160 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1621.
