WINTERBOURNE-CAME, a parish partly in the hundred of CULLIFORD-TREE, Dorchester division, and partly within the liberty of FRAMPTON, Bridport division, of the county of DORSET, 2¾ miles (S.E. by S.) from Dorchester, containing, with the tything of Cripton, 54 inhabitants.

The living is a rectory, to which that of Winterbourne-Farringdon was united, in 1751, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated jointly in the king's books at £15. 5., and in the patronage of Lady C. Damer. The church is dedicated to St. Peter.

Here was anciently a small Benedictine nunnery, supposed to have been a cell to the abbey of Caen in Normandy.

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