Dorset Liberties

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

• Alton Pancras

• Bindon Liberty:

Chaldon Herring

Edmondsham (part)

Moreton (part)

Pulham (part)

West Lulworth

Wool

• Broadwindsor

• Corfe Castle (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

• Loders and Bothenhampton Liberty:

Bothenhampton

Loders

• Owermoigne (formerly part of Winfrith Hundred)

• Piddlehinton

• Piddletrenthide Liberty:

Gorewood (from 1858)

Minterne Magna (part)

Piddletrenthide

• Portland

• Powerstock Liberty:

Powerstock (part)

• Ryme Intrinseca

• Stour Provost

• Sutton Poyntz Liberty:

Chickerell (part)

Preston

Stockwood

• Sydling St Nicholas

• 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)