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Woolland

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Also known as Woolland, Dorset, Wooland

Woolland is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale under Bulbarrow Hill west of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 50. The village had a population of 76 in 2001.

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Place details

Locality
Woolland
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
0

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Key facts

UK place.map_type
Dorset
UK place.population
50
UK place.unitary_england
Dorset
UK place.lieutenancy_england
Dorset
UK place.post_town
Blandford Forum
UK place.postcode_area
DT
UK place.postcode_district
DT11
UK place.constituency_westminster
North Dorset
UK place.region
South West England
UK place.os_grid_reference
ST776069
UK place.country
England
UK place.official_name
Woolland
UK place.static_image_name
Woolland Church.JPG
UK place.static_image_caption
Woolland Church

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Woolland is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale under Bulbarrow Hill west of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 50. The village had a population of 76 in 2001.

The village is first mentioned in Cartularium Saxonicum from the year 939 Wonlond, the Domesday Book from the year 1086 Winlande and the Pipe Rolls from the year 1170 Wunlanda. The name is interpreted as Old English wynn-land meadow land or pasture land.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Woolland” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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