In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Tolpuddle like this:
TOLPUDDLE, a parish, with a village and two hamlets, in Dorchester district, Dorset; 3¾ miles N by E of Moreton r. station, and 7 ENE of Dorchester. Post town, Dorchester. Acres, 2,039. Real property, £2,726. Pop., 401 Houses, 80. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £240.* Patron, Christchurch, Oxford. The chancel of the church was rebuilt in 1840. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.
Tolpuddle through time
Tolpuddle is now part of West Dorset district. Click here for graphs and data of how West Dorset has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Tolpuddle itself, go to Units and Statistics.
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Tolpuddle in West Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/13990
Date accessed: 17th October 2024
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