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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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LODERS, a village and a parish in Bridport district, Dorset. The village stands adjacent to the Bridport railway, on a small affluent of the river Brit, 2 miles NE of Bridport; and has a post office under Bridport. The parish comprises 2,241 acres. Real property, with UpLoders, Mattravers, and Askerswell, £7,127. Rated property of L. alone, £4,498. Pop. in 1851,986; in 1861, 1,053. Houses, 218. The property is divided among a few. Loders Court is the seat of Sir M. H. Nepean, Bart. A priory, subordinate to Montsburgh abbey in Normandy, was founded here in the time of Henry II.; and was given, by Henry V., to Sion abbey. Building stone is quarried. A large flax and hemp mill is at West End. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £315.* Patron, alternately the Lord Chancellor and Sir M. H. Nepean, Bart. The church has a low massive W tower, and is good. There are a Wesleyan chapel, a national school, and charities £12.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Loders CP/AP Bridport RegD/PLU Dorset AncC |
| Place: | Loders |
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