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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Anderson like this:
ANDERSON, or Anderstone-Winterbourne, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; on an affluent of the river Stour, 7 miles S of Blandford, and 7 WNW of Poole Junction r. station. Post Town, Winterbourne Kingston under Blandford. Acres, 570. Real property, £1,149. Pop., 62. Houses, 12. The chief residence is Anderson House. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £146. Patron, St. B. Tregonwell.
Anderson is now part of DORSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DORSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Anderson itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Anderson in Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13455
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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