Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Melcombe Horsey

Melcombe Horsey, par. and seat (Melcombe Bingham), Dorset, 7 miles E. of Cerne Abbas, 2151 ac., pop. 183; P.O., called Melcombe Bingham.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish and seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Melcombe Horsey AP/CP       Dorset AncC
Place names: MELCOMBE BINGHAM     |     MELCOMBE HORSEY
Place: Melcombe Horsey

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