Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for VERWOOD, or Fairwood

VERWOOD, or Fairwood, a chapelry in Cranborne parish, Dorset; on the Salisbury and Dorset railway, 4 miles SE of Cranborne. It has a post-office under Salisbury and a r. station. Pop., 685. The living is annexed to Cranborne.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cranborne CP/AP       Dorset AncC
Place names: FAIRWOOD     |     VERWOOD     |     VERWOOD OR FAIRWOOD
Place: Verwood

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