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A vision of Britain through time
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PIDDLETOWN, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred in Dorset. The village stands on the river Piddle, 3¾ miles N N W of Moreton r. station, and 5 N E by E of Dorchester: was once a market-town; and has a post-office ‡ under Dorchester, and fairs on Easter-Tuesday, and 29 Oct. The parish contains also the hamlets of Admiston, Barton, Bourne, Chinehill, Druce, Duddle, Ilsington, Little Piddle, Troytown, and Water-son. Acres, 7, 653. Rated property, £7, 570. Pop., 1, 241. Houses, 259. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £438.* Patron, the Marquis of Hastings. The church is decorated English, in good condition; and contains afigured font, some old effigies, and several brasses. There are an Independent chapel, a national school, and charities £8.—The sub-district contains also elevenother parishes, and is in Dorchester district. Acres, 24, 912. Pop., 4, 143. Houses, 837. The hundred contains five parishes, and part of another; and is mainly in Dorchester division, but partly in Blandford div. Acres, 13, 139. Pop. in 1851, 2, 150. Houses, 436.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Puddletown AP/CP Puddletown Hundred Puddletown SubD Dorset AncC |
| Place: | Puddletown |
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