In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Sixpenny Handley like this:
HANDLEY, a village and a parish in Wimborne district, Dorset. The village stands near the boundary with Wilts, 5 miles NW of Cranborne, and 10 NE of Blandford r. station; was once a market town; and has a post office, under Salisbury. The parish includes also the villages of Newton and Deanlane; contains the tythings of Gussage, Minchington, and Woodcutts; and is sometimes called Sixpenny-Handley. ...
Acres, 5, 928. Real property, £6, 531. Pop., 1, 203. Houses, 264. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lord Rivers. The living is a vicarage, united with the chapelry of Gussage-St. Andrew, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £63.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Windsor. The church is ancient, in tolerable condition; and has an embattled tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and a national school.
Sixpenny Handley through time
Sixpenny Handley is now part of East Dorset district. Click here for graphs and data of how East Dorset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Sixpenny Handley itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Sixpenny Handley in East Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13852
Date accessed: 16th April 2024
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