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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
CERNE, a river, a subdistrict, a hundred, and a division in Dorset. The river rises near Mintern; and runs 10 miles southward, past Cerne-Abbas, Nether-Cerne, and Forston, through a tract of chalk hills, to the Froms in the vicinity of Dorchester. The subdistrict lies round Cerne-Abbas; is in the district of Dorchester; and contains nineteen parishes and a parochial chapelry. Acres, 45,363. Pop., 7,318. Houses, 1,543. The hundred also lies round Cerne-Abbas, is partly in Bridport and Dorchester divisions, but chiefly in Cerne division; bears the name of Cerne, Totcombe, and Modbury; and contains five parishes of the subdistrict, together with one parish and part of another not in the subdistrict. Acres, 10,501.-The division is more extensive than the subdistrict; and contains the hundreds or liberties of Alton-Pancras, Buckland-Newton, Piddletrenthide, and Sydling-St. Nicholas, and parts of Fordington, Bindon, Sherborne, Tollerford, Whiteway, Yetminster, and Cerne, Totcombe, and Modbury. Acres, 47,653. Pop., 7,318. Houses, 1,543.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river, a subdistrict, a hundred, and a division" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Dorset AncC |
| Place names: | CERNE | MODBURY | TOTCOMBE |
| Place: | Cerne |
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