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industry. Records from 1848 indicate
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stated that "Yetminster is the nearest Dorset equivalent to the stone building of the
Cotswold country", and in 1980 Roland Gant wrote that "little has come since to spoil this largish village."
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In the 2011 census
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861:"'Yetminster', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 1, West (London, 1952), pp. 270–274"
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1301:. City & County Histories. David & Charles.
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fewster Cow pox and its ability to prevent smallpox.
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