Description
Corfe Mullen, a parish in Dorsetshire, on the Roman road from Poole, near the river Stour, and 2 3/4 miles from Wimborne station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Wimborne, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 3231; population, 786. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, £242 with residence. Patrons, Eton College. The church was reseated in 1865. There are Baptist, Wesleyan, and Methodist chapels.
Parish Church
The church of St. Hubert is an ancient building of red stone and brick in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept, south porch, and a tower containing 4 bells: the stained east window, placed in 1893, is a memorial to Miss F.S. Plumtre: the church was repaired in 1850 and 1865, and affords 343 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1652.
