Kimmeridge, Dorset

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Kimmeridge is a village in Dorset

Other current and historical names

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

Kimmeridge in historic gazetteers

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

Kimmeridge, par. and vil., Dorset, near bay of same name, 6½ miles S. of Wareham, 1570 ac., pop. 170; P.O.; produces a peculiar bituminous shale, of which small pieces of a circular form have been found and called Kimmeridge coal-money; they vary in size and are of great antiquity; Kimmeridge Valley is 4½ miles long.

Kimmeridge in the Domesday Book

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

Two manors recorded in Domesday.

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