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Dorset A-G

Abbotsbury
Abedesberie / Abodesberie: Abbotsbury Abbey; Wife of Hugh FitzGrip. 2 mills. 600 sheep, 23 cattle, 4 cows.
Stone-built; famous swannery; tithe barn; remains of an 11th century Benedictine abbey.
Abbotts Wootton
Widetone: Abbotsbury Abbey. 20 goats.
Abbotts Wootton Farms.
Acton
Tacatone / a: Wife of Hugh FitzGrip. Mill.

Adber
Ateberie / a, Etesberie / Ettebere: Drogo from Count of Mortain; Ralph de Conteville from Walter de Douai.
Part of Sherborne rural district.
Afflington
Alfrunetone / -a / Alvretone, Alvronetone: Roger de Beaumont; Walter from William de Braose; Walter de Claville and Durand the Carpenter from the king.
Afflington Farm near Corfe Castle.
Affpuddle
Affapidele / a: Cerne Abbey. 2 mills, 9 oxen.
The arms in the church, of the Lawrence family, ancestors of George Washington, are thought to have inspired the United States flag.
Ailwood
Aleoude: Swein from the king, and Hugh's wife from him.
Ailwood Farm.
Allington
Adelingtone: Thurstan FitzRolf. Mill.
Suburb of Bridport.
Alton Pancras
Altone: Bishop of Salisbury. Mill.
Ancient field systems.
Ash
Aisse: David from William de Braose.
Site of a Roman camp.
Ashmore
Aisemare / a: King's land. 826 sheep, 50 goat.
Highest in Dorset; thatched cottages; Georgian houses; ancient burial mounds.
Askerswell
Oscherwille / a: Tavistock Abbey.
Secluded.
Athelhampton
Pidele: Ohdold from Bishop of Salisbury. Mill.
Water meadows; 15th century Athelhampton Hall.
Atrim
Atrem / um: Bolle the priest and a widow from Abbotsbury Abbey.

Bardolfeston
Pidele: Monks of Sherborne.
Near Bardolf manor house.
Bere Regis
Bere / a: King's land and Brictward the priest from the king; William de Moutiers from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip. Mill.
Ancient town; Iron Age fort nearby.
Bestwall
Beastewell: Count of Mortain.
Part of Wareham.
Bexington
Besintone / Bessinton: Roger of Arundel. 2 cows.

Bhompston
Frome:
Lost.
Bincombe
Beincome: St. Stephen's of Caen, formerly Earl Harold.
Near Chalbury Iron Age hill fort.
Blackmanston
Blachemanestone: Aelfric from the king.
Blackmanston Farm.
Blandford St. Mary
Bleneford(e) / Blaneford(e): Bretel from Count of Mortain; Auilf and Edwin from the king; William from William d'Eu.

Bloxworth
Blocheshorde / a: Cerne Abbey.
Pretty. The partly Norman church originally belonged to Cerne Abbey.
Bockhampton
Bochehamtone / tona: Countess of Boulogne.
Now Higher Bockhampton. Birthplace of the novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928).
Boveridge
Boverhic: St. Mary's, Cranborne. Mill.

Bovington
Bovintone: Aelfric, the king's thane, the pre-Conquest holder.
Bovington Farm. T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) served in the Tank Corps at nearby Bovington Camp.
Bowood
Bovewode: 3 men-at-arms from Bishop of Salisbury.
Now the localities of North and South Bowood.
Bradford Abbas
Bradeford: Monks of Sherborne. Mill.
Ancient, stone-built. King Alfred gave the land to Sherborne Abbey in AD 933. Nearby Wyke Farm, a moated manor house, belonged to the monks of Sherborne until the Dissolution.
Bradford Peverell
Bradeford: William d'Eu. 2 mills.
On high, wooded ground.
Bradle
Bradelege: Aiulf the Chamberlain.
Bradle Farm.
Bradpole
Bratepolle: King's land.
On the outskirts of Bridport.
Bredy (in Burton Bradstock)
Bridie: Berengar Giffard from the king.
Bredy Farm.
Brenscombe
Brunescume: Wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
Brenscombe Farm.
Briantspuddle
Pidele: Godric the priest.
White-walled, thatched cottages; also known as Prestes Puddle.
Bridge
Brige / a: Aiulf the Chamberlain from the king; Hugh from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip; Edric from the king. 20 oxen.
Probably Bridge Farm.
Bridport
Brideport / Brideporta: Bishop of Salisbury; St. Wandrille's Abbey.
Town; rope and net-making centre for 1000 years. Parliamentary soldiers almost captured Charles II here in 1651.
Broadmayne
Maine: Earl Hugh.
Large.
Broadwindsor
Windesore: Hundger FitzOdin from the king.
17th century cottages. Charles II fled here after the Battle of Worcester (1651).
Brockington
Brochemtune: Count of Mortain; Wulfgeat. Mill.
Brockington Farm.
Bryanston Blaneford
Blaneford: Count of Mortain; Wulfgeat from the king. Mill.
Bryanston public school, set in the parkland.
Buckham
Bochenham: Walter from Bishop of Salisbury.
Remote.
Buckhorn Weston
Westone: Hamo from Count of Mortain.

Buckland Newton
Bochelande: St. Mary's Glastonbury.
17th century manor house; church with a slate figure, thought to be Saxon.
Buckland Ripers
Bocheland / t: Wife of Hugh FitzGrip. Mill. 200 sheep.
Manor house.
Burleston
Pidele: Milton Abbey. Mill.

Burstock
Bureuuinestoch: Earl Hugh.
Tudor manor farm.
Burton Bradstock
Bridetone / a: King's land with St. Wandrille's Abbey holding the church.
Thatched stone cottages.

Canford Magna
Cheneford: Edward of Salisbury. 2 mills.
Parish; Canford Manor, a public school.
Catherston Leweston
Cerneli: Count of Mortain.
Almost absorbed by Charmouth; 19th century manor house.
Catsley
Catesclive: William from Earl Hugh.
Catsley Farm.
Cattistock
Stoche Estocha: Milton Abbey. Mill.
Victorian church with work by Gilbert Scott and William Morris.
Chaldon
Calvedone / a: King's land; Bolle the priest from the king; Hugh from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip. 500 sheep.
Now Chaldon Herring; also known as East Chaldon; Bronze Age barrows.
Charborough
Cereberie / a: King's land. Charborough House.
It was blown up during the Civil War and rebuilt in 1661 by Parliamentarian Sir Walter Erle, whose descendants still own it.
Charlton Marshall
Cerletone / a: King's land. 2 mills.

Charminster
Cerminstre: Bishop of Salisbury.

Charmourth
Cernemude: Count of Mortain.
Regency houses; thatched cottages.
Chelborough (West)
Celberge / a: Ranulf from William de Mohun (claimed by the son of Odo the Chamberlain); Roger of Arundel.
Remote, an ancient manor farm.
Cheselbourne
Ceseburne: Shaftesbury Abbey. Mill.
Remote.
Chettle
Ceotel: Aiulf the Chamberlain.
Chettle House, a Queen Anne mansion.
Chickerell
Cicherelle: Bolle the priest from the king.

Chideock
Cidi(o)hoc: King's land.
Chideock Castle. The Chideock Martyrs, 4 Roman Catholics executed during Elizabeth I's reign, were tried in Chideock House.
Chilcombe
Ciltecome: Brictwin from the king.

Child Okeford
Acford / a: King's land; Count of Mortain. 2 mills.
Ruined mill-race; Iron Age fort.
Chilfrome
Frome / a: William de Mohun.

Church Knowle
Glole / -ua / Chenolle: Roger de Beaumont; William de Braose; Waleran; Walter de Claville.

Clifton Maybank
Clistone: William Malbank from Earl Hugh.

Clyffe
Clive: Milton Abbey.
Clyffe Farm.
Colber
Colesberie: King's land.
Colber Crib House.
Compton (near Sherborne)
Contone: Monks of Sherborne. Mill.
Now 2 villages, Nether and Over Compton. Nearby Compton House is a farm where butterflies and moths are bred.
Compton Abbas
Cuntone: Shaftesbury Abbey.

Compton Valence
Contone: Hugh de Port.
Near a Roman road; 17th century manor house.
Coombe
Come:
Lost.
Coombe Keynes
Come: Bishop of Lisieux; Walter de Claville.
Green; 13th century church.
Corfe Castle
Castellum Warham: King's land.
Ruins of a castle originally built by William I on a fortified Saxon site and blown up by Cromwell's Roundheads in 1646.
Corfe Mullen
Corf: Robert FitzGerald. Mill.
Suburban.
Corscombe
Coriescumbe / Corscumbe / Coriscumbe: Bishop of Sherborne; William from Count of Mortain; Godwin from the king.
Expanding.
Corton
Corfetone: Roger de Coursteulles.
Corton Farm.
Cranborne
Creneburne / borna: King's land. 4 mills, 10 cows, 4 cattle, 1037 sheep, 40 goats.
Jacobean and Georgian houses; Cranborne Chase, a medieval royal hunting ground; 13th century manor house, possibly King John's hunting lodge.
Creech
Cric / Crist / Criz: Count of Mortain; Roger de Beaumont; William de Braose; wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
East Creech nearby.
Cruxton
Frome: William de Mohun. Mill.

Dewlish
Devenis: Count Alan.
Dewlish House, an 18th century manor house, is on the site of a Roman villa.
Didlington
Dedilintone: Wilton Abbey.

Dorchester
Dorecestre / a: King's land with Brictward the priest holding the church.
County town on a prehistoric site. Once the Roman town of Durnovaria. Judge Jeffreys held his Bloody Assize here after Monmouth's Rebellion.
Dudsbury
Dodesberie: Waleran.
Traces of ancient earthworks.
Durweston
Dervinestone / Derwinestone: Aiulf the Chamberlain; the wife of Hugh FitzGrip. Mill, vines.

Durweston Knighton
Dervinestone: Count of Mortain.
Knighton House.

East Holme
Holne / a: Walter de Claville; Edric from the king.
Holme priory is on the site of Montacute priory.
East Stoke
Stoches: Count of Mortain. Mill.

Edmondsham
Amedesham / Medesham / Medessan: King's land; Humphrey the Chamberlain. 2 mills.
Edmondsham House.
Elworth
Aleurde: Ansfrid from William d'Eu.

Farnham
Ferneham, Fernham: Shaftesbury Abbey; Aiulf the Chamberlain; Odo FitzEverbold; wife of Hugh FitzGrip. Cow.
Thatched cottages.
Fifehead Magdalen
Fifhide: Earl Hugh. 2 mills.

Fifehead Neville
Fifhide: Ingolmann from Waleran. Mill.
Water-meadows; arched packhorse bridge.
Fifehead St. Quintin
Fifhide: Vietel from Shaftesbury Abbey.

Fleet
Flete / -a / Flote / -a: King's land with Bolle the priest holding the church.

Fontmell Magna
Fontemale: Shaftesbury Abbey. 3 mills.
Thatched cottages.
Fordington
Fortitone: King's land.
Fordington Fields; Fordington High Street.
Frampton
Frantone: St. Stephen's of Caen. 2 mills.
Thatched, stone cottages; near the site of a Roman villa.
Frome Billet
Frome / a: William Bellett from the king. Mill.
Stafford House, possibly including Evereard's Farm.
Frome St. Quintin
Litelfrome / a: King's land. Mill. 50 goats, 400 sheep.

Frome Vauchurch
Frome: Roger de Beaumont; William de Braose; Waleran; Walter de Claville.

Frome Whitfield
Frome: Wife of Hugh FitzGrip. 250 sheep, 1 ass.

Galton
Galtone / Gaveltone: Brictwin; Osmund the Baker from the king.

Gillingham
Gelingeham / eha: King's land; St. Mary's, Cranborne; Bernard from Thurstan FitzRolf; Edwin, Wulfwin, Edward Hunter and Fulcred from the king.
Light industry; fine Georgian houses.
Glanvilles Wootton
Widetone: William de Braose.
Manor house.
Goathill
Gatelme: Humphrey from Count of Mortain. Mill.

Gold Hill
Hille: Osbern from the king.

Graston
Graustan: William from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip.

Great Crawford
Graveford: Aelfric from the king.
Part of Spettisbury.
Gussage All Saints
Gessic: Count of Mortain. Mill.
Gussage House.
Gussage St. Michael
Gessic: King's land.
Manor farm.