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Up Cerne  Dorset

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Up Cerne like this:

CERNE (Upper), a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the river Cerne, 1½ mile N by W of Cerne-Abbas, and 4 E by S of Evershot r. station. Post Town, Cerne, under Dorchester. Acres, 1,103. Real property, with Cerne-Abbas, £6,389. Pop., 75. Houses, 13. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £152.* Patron, J. White, Esq. The church was reported in 1859 as very bad.

Up Cerne through time

Up Cerne is now part of West Dorset district. Click here for graphs and data of how West Dorset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Up Cerne itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Up Cerne in West Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13593

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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