Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for FARINGDON

FARINGDON, a chapelry in Iwerne-Courtney parish, Dorset; 5¼ miles SSW of Shaftesbury. The statistics are returned with the parish. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the rectory of Iwerne-Courtney, in the diocese of Salisbury.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Dorset AncC
Place: Farringdon

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