Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINTERBOURNE-STEEPLETON

WINTERBOURNE-STEEPLETON, a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; 4 miles W by S of Dorchester r. station. Post town, Dorchester. Acres, 1,783. Real property, £1,560. Pop., 191. Houses, 35. The property is not much divided. The living is a rectory, annexed to W.-Abbas. The church is tolerable.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dorset AncC
Place: Winterborne Steepleton

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