Description
Poorton, North, a parish in Dorsetshire, 2 miles N by W of Poorstock station on the G.W.R., and 4 SE of Beaminster. It contains part of Loscombe hamlet, and its post town is Melplash. Acreage, 684; population, 63. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £60. The church was rebuilt in 1862. The Earl of Sandwich is lord of the manor.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
Villages, Hamlets, &c.
Loscombe, a hamlet in Netherbury, North Poorton, and Poorstock parishes, Dorsetshire, 3 1/4 miles SE of Beaminster.
