Description
Dewlish, a parish, which is also a liberty, in Dorset, on an affluent of the river Piddle, near a Roman way, and 8 miles from Dorchester station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Dorchester, and is within 2 miles of Milborne St Andrew, which is the money order office; telegraph office, Piddletown. Acreage, 2134; population, 396. Dewlish House is the seat of the Michel family. A Roman pavement was found in the parish in 1740, and Roman coins and other relics have been found in a neighbouring double-ditched camp of 7 acres. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Milborne St Andrew, in the diocese of Salisbury; joint net value, £145. The church is good; it was restored and enlarged in 1879. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Parish Church
The church or All Saints is an ancient building of stone in mixed styles, but principally Early English, and comprises chancel, with north aisle (erected in 1879), nave, aisles, north porch, and an embaltled western tower containing 3 bells: the church was restored in 1872, when the south aisle was added: in the north aisle is a monument to Field Marshall Sir John Michel G.C.B. (d. 1886). erected by friends in the army and the country: there are 280 sittings.
The register dates from the year 1627.
