Description
Oborne, a parish in Dorsetshire, adjacent to Somerset, If mile ENE of Sherborne station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Sherborne; money order and telegraph office, Sherborne. Acreage, 607; population, 130. The manor belongs to Caius College, Cambridge. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £90 with residence. The church was rebuilt in 1862, and is in the Early English style
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
