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MILTON (WEST), a chapelry in Poorstock parish, Dorset; on the river Asker, 1½ mile W by N of Poorstock r. station, and 3½ NE by N of Bridport. Posttown, Poorstock, under Bridport. Rated property, about £1,000. Pop., 244. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Poorstock, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is ancient.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Powerstock AP/CP Dorset AncC |
Place names: | MILTON | MILTON WEST | WEST MILTON |
Place: | West Milton |
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