Place:


Farringdon  Dorset

 
Ordnance Survey First Series map -- click to enlarge

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Farringdon like this:

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.

Farringdon through time

Farringdon is now part of North Dorset district. Click here for graphs and data of how North Dorset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Farringdon itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Farringdon in North Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20915

Date accessed: 06th November 2024

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