In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Milborne St Andrew like this:
MILBORNE-ST.ANDREW, a village and a parish in Blandford district, Dorset. The villages tands on an affluent of the river Puddle, near the Via Iceniana, 5¾ miles N by E of Moreton r. station, and 8 SW of Blandford; was once a market-town; and has a post office under Blandford, a reading-room and temperance hall built in 1863, and a fair on 30 Nov. ...
The parish contains also the tything of Milborne-Churchstone, and comprises 1,717 acres. Real property, £1,682. Pop., 327. Houses, 73. The manor was given by Athelstane to Milton abbey; and passed to the Mortons, the Pleydells, and others. There is an oblong, double-entrenched, ancient camp, of 7 acres. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Dewlish, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £234.* Patron, Lieut. Gen. Sir J. Michel. The church is ancient, has a Norman doorway, was recently restored, and contains monuments of the Mortons, the Pleydells, and others. There is a parochial school. Cardinal Morton, archbishop of Canterbury, was a native.
Milborne St Andrew through time
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GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Milborne St Andrew in North Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13726
Date accessed: 24th April 2024
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