A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
STOKE-ABBAS, or S.-Abbot, a parish, with a village, in Beaminster district, Dorset; 5 miles N of Bridport r. station. It has a post-office under Bridport. Acres, 2,303. Real property, £4,526. Pop. in 1851, 826; in 1861, 703,-of whom 96 were in the Beaminster workhouse. Houses, 137. The property is much sub-divided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £420.* Patron, New College, Oxford. There are a dissenting chapel and a national school.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish, with a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Dorset AncC |
| Place names: | S. ABBOT | STOKE ABBAS | STOKE ABBAS OR S. ABBOT |
| Place: | Stoke Abbott |
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