Up Cerne

Other current and historical names

Cerne
Upper Cerne
Obcerne
Cerne Upper

Parish/Community: Up Cerne
District/Borough: West Dorset
County: Dorset
Region: South West

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 50°49'26"N 2°29'14"W
Eastings/Northings: 365773, 102837
OS Grid: ST657028
Mapcode Local: GBR MW.XFMT
Mapcode Global: FRA 56PX.DTX

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

Up Cerne in historic gazetteers

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

Up Cerne, par., Dorset, on river Cerne, 1½ mile NW. of Cerne Abbas, 1103 ac., pop. 76; contains Upcerne House, seat.

Up Cerne in the Domesday Book

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

- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Bishop of Salisbury St Mary
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Bishop of Salisbury
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Robert (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 2 ¹⁄₂ geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £10 in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 8 smallholders; 6 slaves
- Plough Teams: 3 lord's ploughs; 1 men's plough (4 plough lands)
- Meadow: 7 acres
- Pasture: 1 mixed measure
- Mills: 1, value 15 shillings

British Place Names

Up Cerne, Dorset

Up Cerne is a hamlet in Dorset

Up Cerne in historic gazetteers

Up Cerne in the Domesday Book