Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Melbury Sampford

Melbury Sampford, par., Dorset, 1½ mile SW. of Melbury Bubb, 1024 ac., pop. 70; Melbury Park, seat of the Earl of Ilchester, is an old edifice.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Melbury Sampford AP/CP       Dorset AncC
Place: Melbury Sampford

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