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Beaminster Forum And Redhone Hundred
Beaminster Forum & Redhone Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes: *Beaminster *Bradpole *Chedington *Chardstock (transferred to Devon 1896) *Corscombe *Mapperton *Mosterton *Netherbury *North Poorton *South Perrott *Stoke Abbott *Toller Porcorum (part) *Wambrook (transferred to Somerset 1895) See also *List of hundreds in Dorset This is a list of hundreds in the county of Dorset, England. Between the Anglo-Saxon period and the Local Government Act (1888), the county of Dorset was divided into hundreds and boroughs (and from the mediaeval period, liberties as well). The ... Sources *Boswell, Edward, 1833: ''The Civil Division of the County of Dorset'' (published on CD by Archive CD Books Ltd, 1992) * Hutchins, John, ''History of Dorset'', vols 1-4 (3rd ed 1861–70; reprinted by EP Publishing, Wakefield, 1973) *Mills, A. D., 1977, 1980, 1989: ''Place Names of Dorset'', parts 1–3. English Place Name Society: Survey of Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred (division)
A hundred is an administrative division that is geographically part of a larger region. It was formerly used in England, Wales, some parts of the United States, Denmark, Southern Schleswig, Sweden, Finland, Norway, the Bishopric of Ösel–Wiek, Curonia, the Ukrainian state of the Cossack Hetmanate and in Cumberland County in the British Colony of New South Wales. It is still used in other places, including in Australia (in South Australia and the Northern Territory). Other terms for the hundred in English and other languages include ''wapentake'', ''herred'' (Danish and Bokmål Norwegian), ''herad'' ( Nynorsk Norwegian), ''hérað'' (Icelandic), ''härad'' or ''hundare'' (Swedish), ''Harde'' (German), ''hiird'' ( North Frisian), ''satakunta'' or ''kihlakunta'' (Finnish), ''kihelkond'' (Estonian), ''kiligunda'' (Livonian), '' cantref'' (Welsh) and ''sotnia'' (Slavic). In Ireland, a similar subdivision of counties is referred to as a barony, and a hundred is a subdivision of a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherbury
Netherbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, by the small River Brit, south of Beaminster and north of Bridport. The A3066 road connecting those towns lies 0.5 miles to the east. Population In the 2011 census the parish, including the villages of Melplash and Salway Ash, and the small settlements of Atrim, Oxbridge, Waytown, North and South Bowood, Wooth, Silkhay, Mangerton, Whitecross, Filford, Dottery, Hincknowle and Loscombe, had a population of 1,314. Netherbury is within an electoral ward that bears its name and stretches south to the edge of Bridport. The ward population was 2,080. Facilities Along with domestic buildings, Netherbury village has a church, a village hall, and a play park. The church has a Norman font, a 15th-century altar tomb and a 16th-century pulpit. The hills surrounding the village show examples of strip lynchets. The River Brit used to serve several mills to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Hundreds In Dorset
This is a list of hundreds in the county of Dorset, England. Between the Anglo-Saxon period and the Local Government Act (1888), the county of Dorset was divided into hundreds and boroughs (and from the mediaeval period, liberties as well). The Local Government Act (1888) replaced the hundreds and liberties with urban and rural districts, based on the sanitary districts of the Poor Law Unions which existed in parallel with the hundreds/liberties from 1834. While numerous minor changes took place during that period, the general pattern remained stable. The subdivisions below within hundreds and liberties are the old civil parishes, into which the tithings (the original sub-divisions of the hundreds) came to be fitted. (''Civil parish'' is used here in the sense of an "area for which a poor rate is or can be assessed", a unit which has thus been in existence ''de facto'' from the establishment of the Elizabethan Poor Law; the term itself dates from mid 19th century legislation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset) , locator_map = , coordinates = , region = South West England , established_date = Ancient , established_by = , preceded_by = , origin = , lord_lieutenant_office =Lord Lieutenant of Somerset , lord_lieutenant_name = Mohammed Saddiq , high_sheriff_office =High Sheriff of Somerset , high_sheriff_name = Mrs Mary-Clare Rodwell (2020–21) , area_total_km2 = 4171 , area_total_rank = 7th , ethnicity = 98.5% White , county_council = , unitary_council = , government = , joint_committees = , admin_hq = Taunton , area_council_km2 = 3451 , area_council_rank = 10th , iso_code = GB-SOM , ons_code = 40 , gss_code = , nuts_code = UKK23 , districts_map = , districts_list = County council area: , MPs = * Rebecca Pow (C) * Wera Hobhouse ( LD) * Liam Fox (C) * David Warburton (C) * Marcus Fysh (C) * Ian Liddell-Grainger (C) * James Heappey (C) * Jacob Rees-Mogg (C) * John Penrose (C) , police = Avon and Somerset Police ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wambrook
Wambrook is a village and civil parish in the Blackdown Hills, Somerset, England. The village lies about southwest of the town of Chard. The parish includes the hamlets of Higher Wambrook and Lower Wambrook which is sometimes known as Haselcombe. Ferne Animal Sanctuary is in the west of the parish. History In the west of the parish at Wortheal there are substantial earthworks which may date from the Iron Age. Until 1895 Wambrook was part of the Beaminster Forum and Redhone Hundred in Dorset, only after that becoming part of Somerset. Notable people *Samuel Vickery, recipient of the Victoria Cross Governance The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toller Porcorum
Toller Porcorum () is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the River Toller, Toller valley northwest of Dorchester, Dorset, Dorchester. In the 2011 census the civil parish—which also includes the small settlements of Higher and Lower Kingcombe to the north—had a population of 307. Population A rural and slowly growing area with a population of 307 Toller Porcorum is a village of approximately 160 households History Like the other River Toller, Toller villages of Toller Fratrum and Toller Whelme, the name was taken from the river, which is now known as the River Hooke, Hooke. The addition ''Porcorum'' means ''of the pigs'' in Latin; the village was in the past sometimes known as ''Swines Toller'', but more often as ''Great Toller''. Toller Porcorum is also an ancient Anglican ecclesiastical parish. The church is dedicated to Saint Peter, Saints Peter and Saint Andrew, Andrew and is remarkable for the "drooping chancel". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stoke Abbott
Stoke Abbott is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, west of Beaminster. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 190. The author Ralph Wightman, agriculturist, broadcaster, and native of Dorset, described the village as "a beautiful place of deep lanes, orchards and old houses, with a church of quiet charm", and, in a similar vein, Sir Frederick Treves in 1906 considered it "as pretty a village as any in Dorset". On Waddon Hill to the northwest of the village are the remains of earthworks of an early settlement, consisting of a low bank wide and traces of a ditch, though historic quarrying around the hill may have destroyed more. Mid-1st-century Roman and Romano-British military artefacts were found on the hill's southern slopes in 1876–8. In the Domesday Book in 1086 the village was recorded as Stoche and had 32 households. The parish church of St Mary the Virgin has Norman origins but has been altered and added to over the centuries. The 12th-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Perrott
South Perrott is a village and civil parish in northwest Dorset, England, southeast of Crewkerne. In 2012 the estimated population of the parish was 220. Figures from the 2011 census have been published for South Perrott parish combined with the neighbouring parish of Chedington; the population in these areas was 367. The name Perrott comes from the River Parrett. The manor was held with North Perrott just over the border in Somerset. Immediately south of the church are some earthworks, the remains of the moated enclosures of Mohun Castle. A geophysical survey of this site was undertaken in 1996. Religious sites The Parish Church of St. Mary can be found in the southern part of the village. The church is cruciform in shape, with a prominent central tower that has a plain parapet and gargoyles. The central crossing, transepts, nave and west porch date from the 13th century, while the central tower was rebuilt in the 15th century. A chapel was added to the south side of the cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Poorton
North Poorton is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset unitary authority area about northeast of Bridport. Dorset County Council estimate the parish had a population of 20 in 2013. The old parish church of St Peter is a ruin, with walls remaining to about high. Just to the south is the new church, which is dedicated to St Mary Magdalene and was built in 1861–62 to a design by John Hicks. About NW of the churches is a hill-fort A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze Age or Iron Age. Some were used in the post-Roma ... that covers about . References External links {{commons Hamlets in Dorset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosterton
Mosterton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated approximately north of Beaminster. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 604. The village's name derives from Old English and means the thorn tree belonging to a man named Mort. In 1086 it was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Mortestorne''. Mosterton is a linear settlement, grown along the A3066 road. It lies from Crewkerne railway station across the nearby county boundary in Somerset, and is served by a regular bus service from Yeovil to Bridport. It is home of the Admiral Hood pub, Eeles Pottery, the Parrett and Axe Church of England Primary School and St. Mary's Church (Church of England). The village is divided by the River Axe, from which the primary school takes its name (along with the River Parrett that flows through the nearby village of South Perrott). St Mary's Church was rebuilt on a new site in 1833. The interior of the church is quite understated, but does however retain its ori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County
A county is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesChambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount.The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology, C. W. Onions (Ed.), 1966, Oxford University Press Literal equivalents in other languages, derived from the equivalent of "count", are now seldom used officially, including , , , , , , , and ''zhupa'' in Slavic languages; terms equivalent to commune/community are now often instead used. When the Normans conquered England, they brought the term with them. The Saxons had already established the districts that became the historic counties of England, calling them shires;Vision of Britai– Type details for ancient county. Retrieved 31 March 2012 many county names derive from the name of the county town (county seat) with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapperton
Mapperton is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, south-east of Beaminster. Dorset County Council estimated that the population of the parish was 60 in 2013. Parish The parish of Mapperton is comparatively small at . The population has always been low, rising to a peak of 123 in 1821, before falling to 76 in 1901 and 50 in 1931. After the Second World War it dropped further; only 21 residents remained in 1961. Listed as ''Malperetone'' in the Domesday Book, the name means "farmstead where maple trees grow". Mapperton House Mapperton is noted for its manor house, with both house and gardens open to the public during the summer months. The house is Grade I listed, as is the attached All Saints' Church which dates from the 12th century. The manor had been owned since the 11th century by only four families (Brett, Morgan, Brodrepp, Compton), all linked by the female line, before it was sold to Ethel Labouchere in 1919. When she died in 1955 it was acquired by Victor Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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