Cranborne

Other current and historical names

Cranborn
Cranburne
Creneburne
Creneborna

Built-Up Area: Cranborne
Parish/Community: Cranborne
District/Borough: East Dorset
County: Dorset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°55'9"N 1°55'19"W
Eastings/Northings: 405574, 113320
OS Grid: SU055133
Mapcode Local: GBR 41P.6WY
Mapcode Global: FRA 66VP.507

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Cranborne within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Cranborne in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Cranborne, small town and par., NE. Dorset, in Cranborne Chase, near border of co., 9 miles NE. of Wimborne Minster, 13,730 ac., pop. 2317; P.O., to. Cranborne gives the title of viscount to the Marquis of Salisbury.

Cranborne in the Domesday Book

A village in Cranborne hundred, in the county of Dorset.

- Overlord in 1066: Brictric son of Algar
- Lords of the Manor in 1066: Brictric son of Algar; Thanes, three
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: King William
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: King William; 3 thanes (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 10 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £24 in 1070; £33 in 1086
- Households: 8 villagers; 12 smallholders; 7 cottagers; 10 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (10 plough lands)
- Meadow: 20 acres
- Woodland: 2 leagues
- Pasture: 2 mixed measures
- Mills: 4, value 18 shillings
- Animals in 1086: 10 cows; 51 pigs; 40 goats; 4 cobs

British Place Names

Cranborne, Dorset

Cranborne is a village in Dorset

Cranborne in historic gazetteers

Cranborne in the Domesday Book