Wylye, East Dorset

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Wylye is a village in East Dorset

Other current and historical names

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

Wylye in historic gazetteers

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

Wylye (or Wily), par. and vil. with ry. sta., Wilts - par., 2279 ac., pop. 487; vil., on river Wiley, 7 miles NW. of Wilton; P.O.; large ancient entrenchments are in vicinity.

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

Wiley, river, Wilts; rises near Kingston Deverill, and flows NE. to vicinity of Warminster, thence SE. to the Nadder, near Wilton; is 22 miles long.

Wylye in the Domesday Book

A village in Branchbury hundred, in the county of Wiltshire.

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