A vision of Britain through time
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
DUMMER, a parish and a sub-district in Basingstoke district, Hants. The parish lies 2¼ miles from the Southwestern railway, 5 miles SW of Basingstoke; and has a post office under Basingstoke. Acres, 2, 180. Real property, £2, 540. Pop., 400. Houses, 84. The property is divided among a few. Dummer House is a chief residence. The land is hilly. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £415.* Patron, the Rev. W.Adams. The church is ancient; contains several brasses, one of them with a rhyming inscription; and is good. A school has £4 from endowment; and other charities £14. Whitfield and Hervey were familiar with this parish; and the latter wrote here some of his "Meditations."-The sub-district contains sixteen parishes. Acres, 32, 377. Pop., 4, 639. Houses, 948.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish and a sub-district" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Dummer CP/AP Dummer SubD Basingstoke RegD/PLU Hampshire AncC |
| Place: | Dummer |
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