Sturminster Marshall

“STURMINSTER-MARSHALL, a parish in the hundred of Cogdean, county Dorset, 4½ miles W. of Wimborne Minster, its post town, and 7 N.W. of Poole. The village, which is considerable, is situated at the eight-arched bridge over the river Stour. The parish comprises the tything of Coombe Almer. It was a market town under the Earls of Pembroke, Earls Marshal. The land is partly in hop-grounds. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Sarum, value £303, in the patronage of Eton College. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, has recently been restored, and at the W. end of the N. aisle is a space partitioned off, in which the royal peculiar court of Sturminster-Marshall is held. In addition to the parish church are the district churches of Lytchett Minster, Hamworthy, and Corfe Mullen, the livings of which are perpetual curacies and a vicarage, varying in value from £386 to £295. The parochial charities produce about £40 per annum, which go to Mackrell's endowed church school for both sexes. The Independents have a chapel. Sir W. Year, G. Churchill, Esq., and H. W. Pickard, Esq., are lords of the manor."

"ALMER COOMBE, a tything in the parish of Sturminster Marshall, hundred of Loosebarrow, in the county of Dorset, near Almer."

"COGDEAN, a hamlet in the parish of Sturminster-Marshall, hundred of Cogdean, in the county of Dorset, 2 miles S.W. of Wimborne Minster."

"COOMBE ALMER, a tything in the parish of Sturminster Marshall, in the county of Dorset, 4½ miles W. of Wimborne Minster."

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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868