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Winterborne Came
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“WINTERBORNE CAME, a parish partly in the liberty of Frampton, and partly in the hundred of Culliford Tree, county Dorset, 2 miles S.E. of Dorchester, on the road from Dorchester to Wareham. The parish includes the hamlets of Cripton, Middle and Higher Came, and Winterborne-Faringdon -which last is extra-parochial, but, having no inhabitants, is in this parish. It had formerly a priory cell to the abbey of Caen, in Normandy. There is a large extent of woodland. The soil is clayey upon a substratum of chalk and gravel. The living is a rectory* with that of Winterborne-Faringdon united, joint value £250. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, contains two effigies and monuments. The church in the quondam parish of Winterborne-Faringdon is now in ruins."
"CRIPTON, a hamlet in the parish of Winterborne Came, in the hundred of Culliford Tree, in the county of Dorset, 3 miles S. of Dorchester, its post town. There are only four houses."
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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 Winterbourne Came (St. Peter) on his Dorset Churches website
- A description of Winterborne Came 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
"CRIPTON, a hamlet in the parish of Winterborne Came, in the hundred of Culliford Tree, in the county of Dorset, 3 miles S. of Dorchester, its post town. There are only four houses."
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