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The following appear as names for Compton Dundon. Follow the links for what the author actually said:
Name | Author | Source |
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COMPTON DUNDEN | John Marius Wilson | Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72). |
COMPTON DUNDON | John Bartholomew | Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). |
NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:
These names were used for units associated with Compton Dundon. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:
Name | Unit Type | Source |
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COMPTON DUNDEN | Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | 1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'. |
COMPTON DUNDON | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 423. |
Parish-level Unit (AP/CP) | F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Southern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1979), p. 423. | |
COMPTON DUNDON ST ANDREW | Ecclesiastical Parish (EP) | 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Ecclesiastical parishes or districts - Families or separate occupiers, and population, 1911'. |
NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Compton Dundon, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:
Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Compton Dundon, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Compton Dundon in South Somerset | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/12666/names
Date accessed: 28th September 2024