Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CAUNDLE-STOURTON

CAUNDLE-STOURTON, a parish in Sturminster district, Dorset; 3½ miles SE of Milborne-Port r. station, and 4½ WNW of Sturminstor. Post Town, Stalbridge, under Blandford. Acres, 1,975. Real property, with Lydlinch, Wake, and Stock-Gaylard, £8,445. Pop., 395. Houses, 94. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £48. Patron, Sir H. A. Hoare, Bart. The church is ancient, and has a tower. Bishop Mew was a native.


(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: Stourton Caundle AP/CP       Sturminster RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place: Stourton Caundle

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