Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Cranborne

Cranborne, small town and par., NE. Dorset, in Cranborne Chase, near border of co., 9 miles NE. of Wimborne Minster, 13,730 ac., pop. 2317; P.O., to. Cranborne gives the title of viscount to the Marquis of Salisbury.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "small town and parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Cranborne CP/AP       Dorset AncC
Place: Cranborne

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