Yetminster

Other current and historical names

Etiminstre

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

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 50°53'44"N 2°34'46"W
Eastings/Northings: 359342, 110843
OS Grid: ST593108
Mapcode Local: GBR MR.RVP8
Mapcode Global: FRA 56HQ.T1Z

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

Yetminster in historic gazetteers

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

Yetminster, par., township, and vil. with ry. sta., Dorset, 4½ miles SE. of Yeovil - par., 4321 ac., pop. 1357; township, 1460 ac., pop. 711; P.O.; was once a market town.

Yetminster in the Domesday Book

A village in Yetminster 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
- Lords of the Manor in 1086: Bishop of Salisbury; William (subinfeudated)
- Taxable Value: 15 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £22 in 1070; £26 in 1086
- Households: 31 villagers; 35 smallholders; 10 slaves
- Plough Teams: 8 lord's ploughs; 10 men's ploughs (26 plough lands)
- Meadow: 42 acres
- Woodland: 1 mixed measure
- Pasture: 2 furlongs
- Mills: 2, value 5 shillings

British Place Names

Yetminster, Dorset

Yetminster is a village in Dorset

Yetminster in historic gazetteers

Yetminster in the Domesday Book