Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CRITCHELL-MOORE

CRITCHELL-MOORE, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; on the Roman road from Old Sarum, 6 miles SW of Cranborne, and 6 N by E of Sturminster r. station. It includes the hamlet of Manswood; and its post town is Long-Critchell, under Salisbury. Acres, 1, 705. Real property, £2, 084. Pop., 342. Houses. 67. The property is all in one estate. Critchell-Moore House is the seat of H.Sturt, Esq. The living is a rectory, united with the rectory of Long Critchell, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £371.* Patron, H.Sturt, Esq. The church has monuments of the Uredales and others; and is good.


(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: Wimborne and Cranborne RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place: Moor Crichel

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