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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Stourpaine like this:
STOURPAINE, a parish, with a village, and with Ashe tything, in Blandford district, Dorset; on the river Stour and on the Dorset and Somerset railway, 3 miles NNW of Blandford. It has a post-office under Blandford. Acres, 2,305. Real property, 1,913. Pop., 658. Houses, 139. The property is divided among a few. A Roman camp is on Hod Hill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £130.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of S. The church is good.
Stourpaine is now part of DORSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DORSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Stourpaine itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Stourpaine in Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13942
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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