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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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WOOL, a parish, with three hamlets, in Wareham district, Dorset; on the river Frome, and on the Southampton and Dorchester railway, 5½ miles W by S of Wareham. It has a post-office under Wareham, a r. station, and a fair on 14 May. Acres, 2,550. Real property, with Coombe-Keynes, £3,743. Pop., 590. Houses, 117. The manor belongs to J. Weld, Esq. A Cistertian abbey was founded at Great Bindon, in 1172, by R. de Newburgh. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £80. Patron, the Bishop of S. The church was restored in 1866.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with three hamlets" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Wool Ch/CP Wareham and Purbeck RegD/PLU Dorset AncC |
| Place: | Wool |
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