Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ORCHARD (East)

ORCHARD (East), a parish in Shaftesbury district, Dorset; on an affluent of the river Stour, 3 miles N by E of Shillingstone r. station, and 4¼ S S W of Shaftesbury. Post-town, Iwerne-Minster, under Bland ford. Acres, 860. Real property, with West Orchard, £3, 369. Pop. of E. O. alone, 227. Houses, 54. The living is a vicarage, united with Margaret-Marsh, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £174.* Patron, the Vicar of Iwerne-Minster. The church was rebuilt in 1860, at a cost of £720; and is in the early English style.


(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: East Orchard Ch/CP       Shaftesbury RegD/Inc/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place names: EAST ORCHARD     |     ORCHARD     |     ORCHARD EAST
Place: East Orchard

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