Dorset Liberties

The following were the liberties in the county of Dorset and the areas they contained:

• Alton Pancras Liberty

• Bindon Liberty

Chaldon Herring

Edmondsham (part)

Moreton (part)

Pulham (part)

West Lulworth

Wool

• Broadwindsor Liberty

• Corfe Castle Liberty (also described as a hundred)

• Dewlish Liberty

Dewlish

Milborne St Andrew (part)

• Fordington Liberty

Fordington

Hermitage

Minterne Magna (part)

Stockland (part) (ie, Dalwood, transferred to Devon 1844)

• Frampton Liberty

Bettiscombe

Bincombe

Burton Bradstock

Compton Valence

Frampton

Winterborne Came (part)

• Gillingham Liberty

Bourton (from 1866)

Gillingham

Motcombe

• Halstock Liberty

• Loders and Bothenhampton Liberty

Bothenhampton

Loders

• Owermoigne Liberty (formerly part of Winfrith Hundred)

• Piddlehinton Liberty

• Piddletrenthide Liberty

Gorewood (from 1858)

Minterne Magna (part)

Piddletrenthide

• Portland Liberty

• Powerstock Liberty

Powerstock (part)

• Ryme Intrinseca Liberty

• Stour Provost Liberty

• Sutton Poyntz Liberty

Chickerell (part)

Preston

Stockwood

• Sydling St Nicholas Liberty

• Waybayouse or Wabyhouse Liberty

Upwey (part)

• Wyke Regis and Elwell Liberty

Upwey (part) (ie, Elwell)

Wyke Regis

References

• Civil Division of the County of Dorset, 1833
• Place Names of Dorset, vols 1-2 (EPNS)
• Hutchins, Rev J, History of Dorset, vols 1-4 (3rd ed, reprint)