Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for GUSSAGE-ALL-SAINTS

GUSSAGE-ALL-SAINTS, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; 4¼ miles WSW of Cranborne, and 6¼ NE of Bailey Gate r. station. It includes Mannington hamlet; and has a post office, of the name of Gussage, under Cranborne. Acres, 2, 907. Real property, £3, 301. Pop., 496. Houses, 102. The land is mostly arable. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £85. Patron, the Archdeacon of Dorset. There is a national school.


(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: Gussage All Saints CP/AP       Wimborne and Cranborne RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place: Gussage All Saints

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