Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BOVERIDGE, or Bouridge

BOVERIDGE, or Bouridge, a tything in Cranborne parish, Dorset; 1¼ mile NE by N of Cranborne. Pop., 174. It has a chapel-of-ease, and an almshouse; and is a curacy with Cranborne. Boveridge House is the seat of the Brounckers.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tything"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Cranborne CP/AP       Dorset AncC
Place names: BOURIDGE     |     BOVERIDGE     |     BOVERIDGE OR BOURIDGE
Place: Boveridge

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