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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Gussage St Andrew like this:
GUSSAGE, a tything and a chapelry in Handley parish, Dorset. The tything is conjoint with Minchington, and lies 5½ miles W by N of Cranborne, and 8 NE of Blandford r. station. Real property of G. with M., £1, 992. Pop., 163. The chapelry bears the name of Gussage-St. Andrew; and its post town is Gussage, under Cranborne. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Handley, in the diocese of Salisbury. The church is good.
Gussage St Andrew is now part of DORSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DORSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Gussage St Andrew itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Gussage St Andrew in Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/24908
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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