In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Iwerne Minster like this:
IWERNE-MINSTER, a village and a parish in Shaftesbury district, Dorset. The village stands near the head of the rivulet Iwerne, 3½ miles NE of Shillingstone r. station, and 5½ NW by N of Blandford-Forum; and has a post office‡ under Blandford. The parish comprises 2, 984 acres. ...
Rated property, £4, 634. Pop., 712. Houses, 159. The property is divided among a few. Iwerne House is the seat of the Bowers. Iwerne down lies on the N. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £306.* Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is partly Norman; and has nave, aisles, and chancel, with a spire 162 feet high. There are a Baptist chapel and a national school.
Iwerne Minster through time
Iwerne Minster is now part of North Dorset district. Click here for graphs and data of how North Dorset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Iwerne Minster itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Iwerne Minster in North Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13675
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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