Mapperton, Dorset

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Mapperton is a hamlet in Dorset

Parish/Community: Sturminster Marshall
District/Borough: East Dorset
County: Dorset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 50°47'14"N 2°8'1"W
Eastings/Northings: 390662, 98645
OS Grid: SY906986
Mapcode Local: GBR 209.FBV
Mapcode Global: FRA 67F0.DHD

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

Mapperton in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Abbey of Shaftesbury St Edward & St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Abbey of Shaftesbury
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Abbey of Shaftesbury
- Taxable Value: 11 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £1 10/- in 1070; £5 in 1086
- Households: 6 villagers; 4 smallholders; 1 slave
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 2 men's ploughs (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 7 acres
- Woodland: 5 ¹⁄₂ furlongs
- Pasture: 5 ¹⁄₂ furlongs

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