Description
Margaret Marsh, a parish in Dorsetshire, 4 miles NE of Sturminster Newton station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 4 SW of Shaftesbury. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Shaftesbury. Acreage, 552; population of the civil parish, 60 ; of the ecclesiastical, 226. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of East Orchard, in the diocese of Salisbury; joint net value, £210. Patron, the Vicar of Iwerne Minster. The church is a small building, and was rebuilt in 1873.
Parish Church
The church of St. Margaret, rebuilt (with the exception of the tower) in 1873, at a cost of £800, is an edifice in the Early Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and an embattled western tower, containing 4 bells: there are sittings for 80 persons.
The register dates from the year 1563.
