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Wyldecourt, a tything in Hawkchurch parish, Dorset; 5 miles NE of Axminster. Acres, 2,110. Pop., 216. Houses, 48.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

CHICKERELL (west), a parish in Weymouth district, Dorset; on the coast, at the East Fleet, 3 miles N W by W of Weymouth town and r. station. It includes the tythings of East Chickerell and Putton; and has a post-office under Weymouth. Acres, 1,812; of which 280 are water. Real property, £2,620. Pop., 660. Houses, 143. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £320. Patrons, the Duke of Cleveland and the Dowager Countess of Sandwich. The church is tolerable.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

SHERFORD, a hamlet in Morden parish, Dorset; 5 ½ miles N of Wareham.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

SHERBORNE, a town, a parish, a district, a hundred, and a division, in Dorset. The town stands on a hill-slope, and on the London, Yeovil, and Exeter railway, 5 ½ miles E of Yeovil; was known to the Saxons as Sciraburn; acquired an abbey or minster before 700; was the seat of a bishopric from 705 till 1075, when the see was removed to Sarum; suffered devastation by Sweyn the Dane, in 1003; was given by William the Conqueror to Osmund de Sels, afterwards Bishop of Sarum, who built a castle at it; passed to successively the Crown, the Montacutes, the Duke of Somerset, Sir Walter Raleigh, Prince Henry, and the Digbys; sent members to parliament in the time of Edward III.; became an important seat of trade before the time of Henry VIII.; was described by Leland as, in his time, ” the most frequented town in the county;” sustained a siege of 16 days, resulting in capture and in the demolition of its castle, by Fairfax, in 1645; gave lodging for a night to the Prince of Orange, on his way to London in 1688; numbers, among its natives, Bishop Winniffe who died in 1584, the engineer Engelbert who died in 1634, and the theologian Dr. Towers who died in 1799; is now a seat of sessions, and a polling-place; publishes a weekly newspaper; comprises several good streets, regularly aligned; includes a market-place, with an ancient conduit; and has a head post-office, a r. station with telegraph, two banking-offices, three chief inns, a poor town-hall, a splendid church, three dissenting chapels, a recently-formed ultra-mural cemetery, an endowed grammar school with £883 a-year, three other endowed schools with £70, £40, and £25, national and British schools, an ancient endowed alms-house hospital with £666 a-year, a recent handsome hospital called Yeatman’s, a workhouse, and general charities £207.

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NELSON-FORT, a signal-station on the coast of Dorset; at the entrance of Lulworth Cove.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].