WITCHAMPTON, a parish and a sub-district in Wimborne district, Dorset. The parish lies 5 miles NNW of Wimborne r. station, and has a post-office under Wimborne. Acres, 148. Real property, £2,548. Pop, 588. Houses, 124. Several cottages for work-people were recently built on the manorial estate. An old abbey cell was here, and has left some remains. There is a paper-mill. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £258.* Patron, H.Sturt, Esq. The church is decorated English. There are a Wesleyan chapel and four alms houses.—The sub-district contains 6 parishes and a part. Acres, 13,153. Pop., 4,196. Houses, 934.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))