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“TARRANT CRAWFORD, (or Preston Crawford), a parish in the hundred of Badbury, East Shaston division, county Dorset, 3½ miles S.E. of Blandford, its post town, and 6. N.W. of Wimborne. The village is situated near the river Stour, which is here joined by the Tarrant. It had formerly a Cistercian nunnery, founded by Ralph de Kahaines in the reign of Richard I., and rebuilt by Bishop Poor in 1230. It was the burial-place of Joan, Queen of Scotland, and of Joan, Princess of Wales. The living is a donative in the diocese of Sarum, value £50. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. F. S. Drax, Esq., is lord of the manor.
"PRESTON TARRANT, a tything in the parish of Tarrant Crawford, hundred of Banbury, county Dorset, 3 miles S.E. of Blandford. It is situated near the confluence of the river Tarrant with the Stour."
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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- Michael Day provides photographs and bibliography for Tarrant Crawford (St. Mary and All Saints) on his Dorset Churches website
- A description of Tarrant Crawford from the Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5 is available on the UK Genealogy Archives site
The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
"PRESTON TARRANT, a tything in the parish of Tarrant Crawford, hundred of Banbury, county Dorset, 3 miles S.E. of Blandford. It is situated near the confluence of the river Tarrant with the Stour."
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