Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Compton-Vallence, or East Compton

Compton-Vallence, or East Compton, par., SW. Dorset, 6½ miles NW. of Dorchester, 1296 ac., pop. 126; P.O., called Compton Valence.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Compton Valence CP/AP       Dorset AncC
Place names: COMPTON VALENCE     |     COMPTON VALLENCE     |     COMPTON VALLENCE OR EAST COMPTON     |     EAST COMPTON
Place: Compton Valence

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