Description
Compton-Abbas, a parish in Dorsetshire, 2 1/2 miles S by E of Shaftesbury, and 5 1/4 miles S of Semley station on the L. & S.W.R. It includes Twyford hamlet, and its post town is Shaftesbury, under Salisbury; money order office, Fontnell Magna. Acreage, 1491; population, 299. The manor belonged to Shaftesbury Abbey. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £170. The church is good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.