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WINTERBORNE-CAME, a parish, with Cripton hamlet, in Dorchester district, Dorset; 1½ mile SE of Dorchester r. station. Post town, Dorchester. Acres, 1,970. Real property, £1,996. Pop., 125. Houses, 24. The property is all in one estate. A nunnery cell to Caen, in Norm and y, was here. The living is a rectory, united with W.-Faringdon, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, 251.* Patron, Capt. L. S. D. Damer. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a parish, with Cripton hamlet" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Winterborne Came CP/AP Dorset AncC |
Place: | Winterborne Came |
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