Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HINTON-PARVA, or Stanbridge

HINTON-PARVA, or Stanbridge, a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset; on the river Allon, 2¼ miles N of Wimborne town and r. station. Post town, Wimborne. Acres, 439. Real property, £531. Pop., 54. Houses, 11. The property is supposed to have belonged to John of Gaunt, and belongs now to Sir R.Glyn, Bart., whose mansion here, called Gaunts, stands on elevated ground amid beautiful and picturesque scenery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £80. Patron, Sir R.Glyn, Bart. The church has Norman traces, and is very good.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hinton Parva AP/CP       Wimborne and Cranborne RegD/PLU       Dorset AncC
Place names: HINTON PARVA     |     HINTON PARVA OR STANBRIDGE     |     STANBRIDGE
Place: Hinton Parva

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