Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINTERBOURNE-DANTSEY

WINTERBOURNE-DANTSEY, a parish in Amesbury district, Wilts; 1½ mile SSW of Parton r. station, and 4 NN E of Salisbury. Post town, Salisbury. Acres, 1,162. Real property, with W.-Earls, £3,268. Pop., 171. Houses, 39. The manor belonged anciently to the Danvers, and gave them the title of Baron. The living is a vicarage, united with W.-Earls, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £250. Patron, the Bishop of S. The church was taken down in 1867. There is a Methodist chapel.


(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: Winterbourne Dauntsey CP/AP       Amesbury RegD/PLU       Wiltshire AncC
Place: Winterbourne Dauntsey

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