Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TOLPUDDLE

TOLPUDDLE, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Dorchester district, Dorset; 3¾ miles N by E of Moreton r. station, and 7 ENE of Dorchester. Post town, Dorchester. Acres, 2,039. Real property, £2,726. Pop., 401 Houses, 80. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £240.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The chancel of the church was rebuilt in 1840. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village and two hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Tolpuddle CP/AP       Dorset AncC
Place: Tolpuddle

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