Woodsford
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Woodsford is a village and civil parish beside the River Frome, Dorset, England, about east of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 80.
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Place details
- Locality
- Tincleton
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.official_name
- Woodsford
- UK place.static_image_name
- Woodsford_Castle_-_geograph.org.uk_-_924711.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Woodsford Castle
- UK place.map_type
- Dorset
- UK place.label_position
- left
- UK place.population
- 80
- UK place.population_ref
- (2013 estimate)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Woodsford
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- South Dorset
- UK place.post_town
- Dorchester
- UK place.postcode_area
- DT
- UK place.postcode_district
- DT2
- UK place.dial_code
- 01305
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SY762905
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Dorset
- Population
- 100
- Image
- Woodsford Castle - geograph.org.uk - 924711.jpg
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- Commons category
- Woodsford
- OS grid reference
- SY762905
- P8168
- Anthonomus grandis
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Manor
- Parish church
- Economic history
- Demography
- References
- Sources
- External links
Woodsford is a village and civil parish beside the River Frome, Dorset, England, about east of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 80.
==Manor== The Domesday Book of 1086 records the manor as Waredesford, which the 18th-century historian John Hutchins interpreted as meaning a ford across the Varia, an alternative name for the River Frome. More recent opinion is that Waredesford referred to a ford belonging to a man named Weard. Two holdings were recorded, which have been interpreted as corresponding to East Woodsford (the current village) and West Woodsford (now Woodsford Castle).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Woodsford” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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