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“HAMPRESTON, a parish partly in the hundred of Cranbourne, county Dorset, and partly in the liberty of Westover, county Hants, 3½ miles S.E. of Wimborne, its post town. It is situated on the navigable river Stour, and between the roads leading respectively from Southampton to Exeter and Pool. The soil is gravelly, but good loam is found in the valleys, which are in a fine state of cultivation, principally arable. Previous to 1440 this parish formed part of that of Wimborne-Minster. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £300. There is also a rent-charge of £53 10s. 4d., payable to certain impropriators. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Sarum, value £282. The church was enlarged in the early part of the present century. There are places of worship for Independents and Roman Catholics, to the latter of which a convent is attached. There is a National school with a small endowment."

"LITTLE CANFORD, a village in the parish of Hampreston, hundred of Cogdean, in the county of Dorset, 2 miles from Great Canford.

from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

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The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868

"HAMPRESTON, a parish partly in the hundred of Cranbourne, county Dorset, and partly in the liberty of Westover, county Hants, 3½ miles S.E. of Wimborne, its post town. It is situated on the navigable river Stour, and between the roads leading respectively from Southampton to Exeter and Pool. The soil is gravelly, but good loam is found in the valleys, which are in a fine state of cultivation, principally arable. Previous to 1440 this parish formed part of that of Wimborne-Minster. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £300. There is also a rent-charge of £53 10s. 4d., payable to certain impropriators. The living is a rectory* in the diocese of Sarum, value £282. The church was enlarged in the early part of the present century. There are places of worship for Independents and Roman Catholics, to the latter of which a convent is attached. There is a National school with a small endowment."

"LITTLE CANFORD, a village in the parish of Hampreston, hundred of Cogdean, in the county of Dorset, 2 miles from Great Canford.

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