Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CHESILTON

CHESILTON, a village on Portland Island, Dorset; at the south-east end of Chesil-Bank, adjacent to Fortunes-Well, 3¼ miles S of Weymouth.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Dorset Ancient County
Place: Chesilton

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