Shillingstone

Other current and historical names

Silleston
Shilling Okeford
Okeford Shilling

Built-Up Area: Shillingstone
Parish/Community: Shillingstone
District/Borough: North Dorset
County: Dorset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°53'48"N 2°14'42"W
Eastings/Northings: 382848, 110825
OS Grid: ST828108
Mapcode Local: GBR 1YS.P52
Mapcode Global: FRA 665Q.YXL

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

Shillingstone in historic gazetteers

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

Shillingstone (or Shilling Okeford), par. and vil. with ry. sta. (for Child Okeford and Okeford Fitzpaine), Dorset, in N. of co.- par., 2223 ac., pop. 566; vil., 5 miles NW. of Blandford; P.O.

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

Okeford Shilling, Dorset. See SHILLINGSTONE.

Shillingstone in the Domesday Book

A village in [Sturminster] Newton hundred, in the county of Dorset.

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Earl Harold
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Ascelin
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Ascelin
- Taxable Value: 16 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £16 in 1070; £19 in 1086
- Households: 15 villagers; 26 smallholders; 5 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 8 men's ploughs (16 plough lands)
- Meadow: 183 acres
- Woodland: 23 furlongs
- Pasture: 42 furlongs
- Mills: 1, value £1 3/4¾

British Place Names

Shillingstone, Dorset

Shillingstone is a village in Dorset

Shillingstone in historic gazetteers

Shillingstone in the Domesday Book