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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Verwood like this:
VERWOOD, or Fairwood, a chapelry in Cranborne parish, Dorset; on the Salisbury and Dorset railway, 4 miles SE of Cranborne. It has a post-office under Salisbury and a r. station. Pop., 685. The living is annexed to Cranborne.
Verwood is now part of DORSET Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how DORSET has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Verwood itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Verwood in Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Ireland through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofireland.org/place/13995
Date accessed: 11th February 2026
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