Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LOOSEBARROW

LOOSEBARROW, a hundred in Wareham and Wimborne divisions, Dorset; containing Almer, Morden, and Spetisbury parishes. Acres of the Wareham part, 6,574. Pop. in 1851,1,018. Houses, 199. Acres of the Wimborne part, 1,161. Pop. in 1851,185. Houses, 36.


(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: Spetisbury CP/AP       Dorset AncC
Place: Loosebarrow

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