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EECOED OF THE PAEISH, MANOR, AND 

 CHURCH OF 8TUDLAND. 



[ Bead at the Museum, November 27th, 1 860. ] 



The following notices have no claim to originality. The 

 historical portion, (in itself very scanty,) is derived from 

 Hutchins' History of the County, and for the description of 

 the Church I am indebted to the kindness of the Rev. Wm. 

 Gray. 



The parish occupies the North-East part of the Isle of 

 Purbeck, and contained in 1774 about fifty or sixty houses, 

 many of which were, as at the present time, scattered about 

 upon the common. In 1851 the population amoimted to 303. 



The soil of the Eastern portion is mostly arable, and of 

 good quality, but the Western, which lies on Poole Bay, is 

 a dark-coloured barren heath. 



"In Domesday Book, Stollant was held by HaimOy of the 

 Earl of Moriton. Here were then thirty-two salt-pits. The 

 diflference of this name from the present may be owing to an 

 error of the Norman scribe.'* 



**Inthe year 1205, King John, (intending an expedition 

 against France,) fitted out a fleet at Portsmouth; but altering 

 his resolution, he landed at Stodlandt," and thence proceeded 

 to Corfe Castle, which he had made a Royal residence. 



"In after times it became part of the possessions of the 

 Ahhey of T(^rentJ founded about 1230. When or by whom it 

 was given is uncertain, no mention being made of it in the 



