Cranborne, Dorset

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Cranborne is a village in Dorset

Other current and historical names

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.

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