Kingston Russell Dorset Family History Guide
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Kingston Russell is an extra-parochial place.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
KINGSTON-RUSSELL, a quondam parish, now a hamlet or extra-parochial liberty, in Dorchester district, Dorset; adjacent to Long Bredy, 8 miles W by N of Dorchester. Acres, 1, 147. Pop., 63. Houses, 14. A Roman station is supposed to have been here. Kingston-Russell House stands in a sort of oasis, among furze-clad hills; was, for four centuries, the seat of the Russells, ancestors of the Duke of Bedford; and is now a farm house. A church or chapel was formerly here, but has disappeared.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Dorset
- Civil Registration District: Dorchester
- Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
- Diocese: Not Applicable
- Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
- Poor Law Union: Dorchester
- Hundred: Uggscombe
- Province: Canterbury