Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHALDON-HERRING, or East Chaldon

CHALDON-HERRING, or East Chaldon, a parish in Wareham district, Dorset; near the coast, 3¾ miles S of Moreton r. station, and 9½ WSW of Wareham. Post Town, Winfrith, under Dorchester. Acres, 2,981. Real property, with Chaldon-Boys and Holworth, £3,285. Pop., 341. Houses, 63. The property is all in one estate. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £62. Patron, Joseph Weld, Esq. The church is good.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Chaldon Herring CP/AP       Wareham and Purbeck RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place names: CHALDON HERRING     |     CHALDON HERRING OR EAST CHALDON     |     EAST CHALDON
Place: Chaldon Herring

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