Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for EGGERTON

EGGERTON, a hundred in Bridport and Dorchester divisions, Dorset. It contains Askerswell parish, four other parishes, and part of another. Acres, 6, 967. Pop., 1, 142. Houses, 217.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 3rd order divisions")
Administrative units: Dorset AncC
Place: Eggerton

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