Liberties were an administrative unit of local government in England from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, co-existing with the then operative system of hundreds and boroughs but independent of both, generally for reasons of tenure. The following were the liberties in the county of Dorset and the areas they contained:
- Chaldon Herring
- Edmondsham (part)
- Moreton (part)
- Pulham (part)
- West Lulworth
- Wool
- Corfe Castle (also described as a hundred)
- Dewlish
- Milborne St Andrew (part)
- Fordington
- Hermitage
- Minterne Magna (part)
- Stockland (part) (ie, Dalwood, transferred to Devon 1844)
- Bettiscombe
- Bincombe
- Burton Bradstock
- Compton Valence
- Frampton
- Winterborne Came (part)
- Bourton (from 1866)
- Gillingham
- Motcombe
- Owermoigne (formerly part of Winfrith Hundred)
- Gorewood (from 1858)
- Minterne Magna (part)
- Piddletrenthide
- Powerstock (part)
- Chickerell (part)
- Preston
- Stockwood
- Upwey (part)
- Upwey (part) (ie, Elwell)
- Wyke Regis
See also
- List of boroughs in Dorset
- List of hundreds in Dorset
- List of sanitary districts in Dorset
- List of Poor Law Unions in Dorset
References
- Civil Division of the County of Dorset, 1833
- Place Names of Dorset, vols 1-2 (EPNS)
- Hutchins, Rev J, History of Dorset, vols 1-4 (3rd ed, reprint)
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