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Horton, Dorset

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34: 434: 50: 57: 403:'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'. The earliest reference to the one in Dorset is in a charter of 946 ACE, albeit surviving only in a fourteenth-century copy, which mentions 'oþ hore tuninge gemære' ('to the boundary of the people of Horton'). 227: 598: 267: 88: 131: 251: 244: 311: 275: 553: 213: 606: 573: 239: 640: 484: 442: 293: 414:
whose principal purpose now is that of a disguised mobile phone mast for operator Vodafone, and the 18th century
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The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society
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but was betrayed by a local woman who, according to legend, later killed herself in remorse.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/articles/2009/01/28/folly_horton_tower_feature.shtml
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Cullingford A History Of Dorset 1980 Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd
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The village has two unusual buildings: the Horton Tower, a five storey
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William Page, Victoria County History, The Priory of Horton, 1908
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church of St Wolfrida, built on the site of the tenth century
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Horton is located in Dorset
Dorset
OS grid reference
SU031075
Civil parish
District
East Dorset
Shire county
Dorset
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
BH21
Dialling code
Police
Dorset
Fire
Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
North Dorset
UK
England
Dorset

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