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GUSSAGE, a tything and a chapelry in Handley parish, Dorset. The tything is conjoint with Minchington, and lies 5½ miles W by N of Cranborne, and 8 NE of Blandford r. station. Real property of G. with M., £1, 992. Pop., 163. The chapelry bears the name of Gussage-St. Andrew; and its post town is Gussage, under Cranborne. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Handley, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is good.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a tything and a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Sixpenny Handley Parish Dorset Ancient County |
| Place: | Gussage St Andrew |
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