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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Alcester like this:
ALCESTER, a liberty in the parish of St. James Shaftesbury, within the parliamentary borough of Shaftesbury, but without the municipal borough, Dorset. Pop., 342. Houses, 76.
Alcester is now part of DORSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DORSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Alcester itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Alcester in Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13449
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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