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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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MILBORNE-ST.ANDREW, a village and a parish in Blandford district, Dorset. The villages tands on an affluent of the river Puddle, near the Via Iceniana, 5¾ miles N by E of Moreton r. station, and 8 SW of Blandford; was once a market-town; and has a post office under Blandford, a reading-room and temperance hall built in 1863, and a fair on 30 Nov. The parish contains also the tything of Milborne-Churchstone, and comprises 1,717 acres. Real property, £1,682. Pop., 327. Houses, 73. The manor was given by Athelstane to Milton abbey; and passed to the Mortons, the Pleydells, and others. There is an oblong, double-entrenched, ancient camp, of 7 acres. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Dewlish, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £234.* Patron, Lieut. Gen. Sir J. Michel. The church is ancient, has a Norman doorway, was recently restored, and contains monuments of the Mortons, the Pleydells, and others. There is a parochial school. Cardinal Morton, archbishop of Canterbury, was a native.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Milborne CP Milborne St Andrew AP/CP Blandford RegD/PLU Dorset AncC |
| Place: | Milborne St Andrew |
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