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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.
STURMINSTER-NEWTON, a small town, a parish, and a hundred, in Dorset. The town stands on the river Stour, and on the Dorset and Somerset railway, 8½ miles NW of Blandford; dates from very early times; is a seat of petty sessions; and has a post-office‡ under Blandford, a r. station, two banking offices, two chief inns, a market house, remains of a castle and a market cross, a six-arched bridge, a church rebuilt in 1827, two dissenting chapels, a literary institution, national schools, a workhouse, charities £21, a weekly market on Thursday, and fairs on 12 May and 24 Oct. The parish comprises 4,229 acres, and is in Sturminster district. Real property, with Hinton-St. Mary and Bagber, £13,205-Pop., 1,880. Houses, 410. The manor was given by Alfred to his son Ethelwald; passed to Glastonbury abbey, and to Queen Catherine Parr; and was given, by Elizabeth, to the Hattons. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £712.* Patron, Lord Rivers.- The hundred contains 5 parishes; and is chiefly in Sturminster division, but partly in Shaston div. Acres, 12.120. Pop. in 1851, 4,462. Houses, 948.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town, a parish, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Sturminster Newton AP/CP Sturminster Newton Hundred Dorset AncC |
| Place: | Sturminster Newton |
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