Description
Woolland, a parish in Dorsetshire, 5 miles SW of Shillingstone station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 10 W by N of Blandford. It has a post office under Blandford; money order and telegraph office, Haselbury Bryan. Acreage, 1137; population, 155. Woolland House is the chief residence. The living is a donative in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is a building of stone in the Early Decorated style.
Parish Church
The church (name not known) was erected by the late Montague Williams esq. in 1855, and is a building of stone in the Early Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave of two bays, south aisle and a western tower with spire, containing one bell: there is a brass to Mary Argenton, lady of the manor, who died in 1666, and another to the late Montague Williams esq. who died in 1890, erected by his four sons; and there are several stained windows: the Decorated font was transferred from the old chapel: the church affords 120 sittings: in the churchyard is a very fine yew tree.
The register dates from the year 1727.
