Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STRATTON

STRATTON, a parish, with two hamlets, in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the river Frome and on the Dorchester and Yeovil railway, 3½ miles NW of Dorchester. It has a post-office under Dorchester. Acres, 1,683. Real property, £2,306. Pop., 351. Houses, 74. The living is a vicarage, annexed to Charminster. The church is good.


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

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Feature Description: "a parish, with two hamlets"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Stratton Ch/CP       Dorset AncC
Place: Stratton

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