Fleet

Other current and historical names

Flete
Flote
East Fleet
Fleet, East

Parish/Community: Fleet
District/Borough: West Dorset
County: Dorset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°37'10"N 2°30'56"W
Eastings/Northings: 363605, 80117
OS Grid: SY636801
Mapcode Local: GBR PW.MYF3
Mapcode Global: FRA 57MF.FQV

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

Fleet in historic gazetteers

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

Fleet.-- par. and hamlet, Dorset, 3 miles NW. of Weymouth, 967 ac., pop. 138; contains Fleet House.

Fleet in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Harold
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: King William
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: King William
- Taxable Value: 5 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £7 in 1070; £7 in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 7 smallholders; 2 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (5 plough lands)
- Pasture: 6 furlongs
- Animals in 1086: 3 cattle; 4 pigs; 1 cob

British Place Names

Fleet, Dorset

Fleet is a village in Dorset

Fleet in historic gazetteers

Fleet in the Domesday Book