Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BLOXWORTH

BLOXWORTH, a parish in Wareham district, Dorset; 3 miles ESE of Bere-Regis, and 5 NNW of Wareham r. station. It has a post office under Blandford. Acres, 2,776. Real property, £1,661. Pop., 264. Houses, 50. The property is all in one estate. Part of the surface is heath; and there are vestiges of a Danish camp. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £230.* Patron, the Rev. G. Pickard Cambridge. The church is very good.


(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: Bloxworth AP/CP       Wareham and Purbeck RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place: Bloxworth

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