Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINTERBORNE-FARINGDON

WINTERBORNE-FARINGDON, a quondam parish, now extra-parochial, in Dorchester district, Dorset; 2 miles SSE of Dorchester r. station. Post town, Dorchester. Pop., 52. The living still ranks as a rectory, annexed to W.-Came.


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

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Feature Description: "a quondam parish, now extra-parochial"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Winterborne Faringdon AP       Dorset AncC
Place: Winterborne Faringdon

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