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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Winterborne Clenston like this:
WINTERBORNE-CLENSTONE, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; 4 miles SW of Blandford r. station-Post town, Blandford. Acres, 1,406. Real property, £1,350. Pop., 106. Houses, 20. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £160.* Patrons, alternately the Pleydelland the Damer families-Three churches formerly were here; and the present church was rebuilt in 1840.
Winterborne Clenston is now part of DORSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DORSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Winterborne Clenston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Winterborne Clenston in Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14004
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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