Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for PARLEY (West)

PARLEY (West), a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; on the river Stour, contiguous to Hants, 5 miles E S E of Wimborne r. station. Post-town, Wimborne. Acres, 3, 407. Real property, £1, 914. Pop., 268. Houses, 81. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £195. Patron, Mrs. Mary Buller. The church is ancient; and there is an Independentchapel.


(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: West Parley AP/CP       Wimborne and Cranborne RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place names: PARLEY     |     PARLEY WEST     |     WEST PARLEY
Place: West Parley

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