List of liberties in Dorset
- List of liberties in Dorset
Liberties were an administrative unit of local government in England from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, co-existing with the then operative system of hundreds and boroughs but independent of both, generally for reasons of tenure. The following were the liberties in the county of Dorset and the areas they contained:
*Alton Pancras
*Bindon Liberty::Chaldon Herring:Edmondsham (part):Moreton (part):Pulham (part):West Lulworth:Wool
*Broadwindsor
*Corfe Castle (also described as a hundred)
*Dewlish Liberty::Dewlish:Milborne St Andrew (part)
*Fordington Liberty::Fordington:Hermitage:Minterne Magna (part):Stockland (part) (ie, Dalwood, transferred to Devon 1844)
*Frampton Liberty::Bettiscombe:Bincombe:Burton Bradstock:Compton Valence:Frampton:Winterborne Came (part)
*Gillingham Liberty::Bourton (from 1866):Gillingham:Motcombe
*Halstock
*Loders and Bothenhampton Liberty::Bothenhampton:Loders
*Owermoigne (formerly part of Winfrith Hundred)
*Piddlehinton
*Piddletrenthide Liberty::Gorewood (from 1858):Minterne Magna (part):Piddletrenthide
*Portland
*Powerstock Liberty::Powerstock (part)
*Ryme Intrinseca
*Stour Provost
*Sutton Poyntz Liberty::Chickerell (part):Preston:Stockwood
*Sydling St Nicholas
*Waybayouse or Wabyhouse Liberty::Upwey (part)
*Wyke Regis and Elwell Liberty::Upwey (part) (ie, Elwell):Wyke Regis
ee also
*List of boroughs in Dorset
*List of hundreds in Dorset
*List of sanitary districts in Dorset
*List of Poor Law Unions in Dorset
References
*"Civil Division of the County of Dorset", 1833
*"Place Names of Dorset", vols 1-2 (EPNS)
*Hutchins, Rev J, "History of Dorset", vols 1-4 (3rd ed, reprint)
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