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CERNE (Upper), a parish in Dorchester district, Dorset; on the river Cerne, 1½ mile N by W of Cerne-Abbas, and 4 E by S of Evershot r. station. Post Town, Cerne, under Dorchester. Acres, 1,103. Real property, with Cerne-Abbas, £6,389. Pop., 75. Houses, 13. The property is all in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £152.* Patron, J. White, Esq. The church was reported in 1859 as very bad.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Dorset Ancient County |
| Place names: | CERNE | CERNE UPPER | UPPER CERNE |
| Place: | Up Cerne |
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