Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Tarrant Crawford

Tarrant Crawford, par., Dorset, 3 miles SE. of Blandford, 600 ac., pop. 61; a nunnery was founded here in time of Richard I., and was the burial-place of Joan, daughter of King John, and Joan, queen of Alexander II.


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

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Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Tarrant Crawford CP/AP       Dorset AncC
Place: Tarrant Crawford

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