Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WINTERBORNE-CLENSTONE

WINTERBORNE-CLENSTONE, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; 4 miles SW of Blandford r. station-Post town, Blandford. Acres, 1,406. Real property, £1,350. Pop., 106. Houses, 20. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £160.* Patrons, alternately the Pleydelland the Damer families-Three churches formerly were here; and the present church was rebuilt in 1840.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Winterborne Clenston AP/CP       Blandford RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place: Winterborne Clenston

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