Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for KINGSTON

KINGSTON, a village in Corfe-Castle parish, Dorset; 1½ mile S by W of Corfe-Castle town. It has a postoffice under Wareham, and a chapel of ease. Encombe House, the seat of Lord Eldon, is in the southwestern vicinity.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Corfe Castle AP/CP       Dorset AncC
Place: Kingston

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