| Hooke |
| Here is yet another village divided into two parts,
with the northern part clustered around a large pond and the 17th
century manor house of Hooke Court on a hill above and the rest of the
village with the church sits around a tiny crossroads a quarter of a
mile south. The church dedicated to St Giles does not conform to the common pattern in the development of the churches of Dorset. It has a 19th century tower and the rest of the church is mediaeval. The tower was designed in 1874, by an employer of Thomas Hardy, the Weymouth architect Crickmay. Inside the church is a font from the 15th century and a stone carving of St Giles made in 1878 by a Dorchester carver.
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