List of liberties in Dorset

Liberties were an administrative unit of local government in England from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, co-existing with the then operative system of hundreds and boroughs but independent of both, generally for reasons of tenure. The following were the liberties in the county of Dorset and the areas they contained:

Chaldon Herring
Edmondsham (part)
Moreton (part)
Pulham (part)
West Lulworth
Wool
Dewlish
Milborne St Andrew (part)
Fordington
Hermitage
Minterne Magna (part)
Stockland (part) (ie, Dalwood, transferred to Devon 1844)
Bettiscombe
Bincombe
Burton Bradstock
Compton Valence
Frampton
Winterborne Came (part)
Bourton (from 1866)
Gillingham
Motcombe
Bothenhampton
Loders
Gorewood (from 1858)
Minterne Magna (part)
Piddletrenthide
Powerstock (part)
Chickerell (part)
Preston
Stockwood
Upwey (part)
Elwell, part of the parish of Upwey
Wyke Regis

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