Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WOOTTON (North)

WOOTTON (North), a parish in Sherborne district, Dorset; 1½ mile SSE of Sherborne r. station. Post town, Sherborne. Acres, 619. Real property, £767. Pop., 76. Houses, 17. The manor belongs to G. D. W. Digby, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £51. Patron, G. D. W. Digby, Esq-The church is tolerable.


(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: North Wootton CP/Ch       Sherborne RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place names: NORTH WOOTTON     |     WOOTTON     |     WOOTTON NORTH
Place: North Wootton

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