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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Thornford like this:
THORNFORD, a parish in Sherborne district, Dorset; 3¼ miles SW of Sherborne r. station. Post town, Sherborne. Acres, 1,407. Real property, £2,267. Pop., 415. Houses, 80. Most of the property is in one estate. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £200.* Patron, G. D. W. Digby, Esq. The church was restored in 1866.
Thornford is now part of DORSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DORSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Thornford itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Thornford in Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13977
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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