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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.
WHITCHURCH-CANONICORUM, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Dorset. The village stands 5 miles WNW of Bridport r. station; took its name from an alien monastery called Album Monasterium, a cell to St. Wandragisil abbey in Normandy; was once a market-town; and has a post-office under Bridport. The parish includes four hamlets, and comprises 6,113 acres. Rated property, £4,765. Pop., 1,533. Houses, 336. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage, united with Chideock and with Stanton-St. Gabriel, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £739.* Patron, the Bishop of S. The church is good; a chapel of ease is at Marshwood; and part of the parish is in Monckton-Wyld chapelry. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels, national schools, and charities £22.—The sub-district contains six parishes, and is in Bridport district. Acres, 15,259. Pop., 4,095. Houses, 902.- The hundred contains nine parishes and a part, and is in Bridport division. Acres, 20,734. Pop. in 1851, 5,686. Houses, 1,181.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Whitechurch Canonicorum CP/AP Whitchurch Canonicorum Hundred Whitchurch Canonicorum SubD Dorset AncC |
| Place: | Whitechurch Canonicorum |
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