SHAPWICK, a parish in the hundred of BADBURY, SHASTON (East) division of the county of DORSET, 4½ miles (S.E.) from Blandford-Forum, containing 409 inhabitants.

The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at £7. 9. 4½., and in the patronage of Lord Rivers. The church is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. The navigable river Stour bounds the parish on the south. James Alexander, Esq., in 1818, gave a moiety of the dividends arising from £300 three per cents. for the education of poor children. Here was a small Carthusian priory, a cell to that of Sheen in Surrey.

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