Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HERON, or West Herne

HERON, or West Herne, a hamlet in the SW of Hants; on the river Stour, 4 miles NW by N of Christchurch. Heron court was a country house of the priors of Christchurch; is now the seat of the Earl of Malmsbury.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC
Place names: HERON     |     HERON OR WEST HERNE     |     WEST HERNE
Place: West Herne

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