Place:


Edmondsham  Dorset

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Edmondsham like this:

EDMONDSHAM, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; 1½ mile S of Cranborne, and 6 NW by N of Ringwood r. station. It includes West Worth; and its post town is Cranborne, under Salisbury. Acres, 1, 671. Real property, £2, 040. Pop., 279. Houses, 61. The property is divided among a few. Edmonsham House is the seat of Mrs. Monro. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Valne, £277: Patrons, the Earl of Shaftesbury and Mrs. Monro. The church is tolerable; and there are charities £14.

Edmondsham through time

Edmondsham is now part of East Dorset district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Dorset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Edmondsham itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Edmondsham in East Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13627

Date accessed: 19th March 2024


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