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Hammoon
Hame: William de Mohun.
Ancient; 15th century thatched manor house.
Hampreston
Ham / a / e: King's land; Aiulf the Chamberlain; William Chernet from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip; Thorkel from the king.
Parish on the outskirts of Bournemouth.
Hanford
Hanford: Count of Mortain.

Hawcombe
Havocumbe: King's land; St. Stephen's of Caen.
Part of Frampton.
Hemsworth
Hemedesworde / wrde: Humphrey the Chamberlain; Hubert from Count of Mortain.
On the site of a Roman villa.
Herston
Herestune / a: Roger Arundel; Geoffrey Scullion.

Hethfelton
Aelfatune Hafeltone: William de Braose.

Hilton
Eltone: Abbotsbury Abbey. Mill. 400 sheep, 25 goats.

Hinton Martell
Hinetone: King's land, formerly Countess Goda. 2 mills.
Much developed.
Hinton St. Mary
Haintone: Shaftesbury Abbey. Mill.
Ancient manor house.
Holton
Holtone: William de Braose.
East Hilton Farm near Holton Heath.
Holwell (in Radipole)
Halegewelle: Count of Mortain.
Holwell Farm.
Holworth
Holverde / a: Milton Abbey. 4 cows, 224 sheep. Sester of honey.
Remote.
Hooke
Lahoc: Count of Mortain.
Ruins of ancient Hooke Court.
Horton
Hortune: Horton Abbey.
18th century folly, Horton Tower. The Duke of Monmouth was captured in a ditch nearby.
Hurpston
Herpere / a: Wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
Locality; ancient Harp Stone.

Ibberton
Abristetone / a: King's land. 4 cows.
17th century manor house.
Ilsington
Elsangtone: Earl Hugh. Mill.

Iwerne Courtney (or Shroten)
Werne: Baldwin the Sheriff. 2 mills.
At the foot of 600ft Hambledon Hill (with its Iron Age fort), where General Wolfe trained his troops before scaling the Heights of Abraham to attack Quebec in 1759.
Iwerne Minster
Euneminstre: Shaftesbury Abbey. 3 mills.

Iwerne Stepleton
Werne / Iwerna: William de Mohun. 282 sheep.
17th century Stepleton House.

Kimmeridge
Cameric: Cerne Abbey; Richard from William de Braose. 2 cows, 250 sheep.
Pretty; oil well at Kimmeridge Bay.
Kingcombe
Chimedecombe: Arnulf de Hesdin; the king's thanes, the pre-Conquest holders.
Possibly Higher Kingcombe.
Kingston (in Corfe Castle)
Chingestone: Shaftesbury Abbey.

Kington
Chintone: Ketel from the king; Ranulf from Waleran; Arnulf de Hesdin.
Now Kington Magna.
Knowlton
Chenoltone / una: King's land; Ansger from Count of Mortain. Mill.
The Knowlton Circles, a sacred neolithic henge. The ruins of a 12th century church lie inside one circle, Knowlton Farm is circled by another.

Langford
Langeford: St. Mary's Cranborne.
Possibly Langford in West Farley.
Langton Herring
Langetone / a / uetona: King's land; the wife of Hugh FitzGrip. 170 sheep.
A 16th century pub.
Langton Long
Blandford / Blaneford / Bleneford: Dodman from Count of Mortain; Roger Tilly from Roger Arundel; Edwin from the king. Mill.

Lazerton
Werne: Edwin the king's thane. Mill.
Lazerton Farm.
Leftisford
Levetesford:
Lost.
Leigh (Colehill)
Lege: Robert FitzGerald.
15th century cross. Remains of a turf maze nearby, said to have been the haunt of witches.
Lewell
Lewelle / Liwelle: Brictwin and Hugh from the king.
Lewell Lodge.
Littelton
Liteltone: Bretel from Count of Mortain. Mill.

Little Bredy
Litelbride / a: Cerne Abbey. 550 sheep.
Bronze Age burial chambers.
Little Puddle
Litelpidele / idre:
Lost.
Littlewindsor
Windresorie / a: William de Mohun.
Remote.
Loders
Lodres: King's land; Count of Mortain; the wife of Hugh FitzGrip; Aelfric and Brictric from the king. 2 mills.
Saxon field systems nearby.
Long Bredy
Langebride / a: Cerne Abbey. Mill. 353 sheep, 20 goats.
Prehistoric earthworks nearby.
Long Crichel
Circel: William d'Eu; Aiulf the Chamberlain. Mill.
Isolated, at foot of Crichel Down.
Lulworth (East and West)
Luluorde / worde: King's land. Count of Mortain; Aiulf the Chamberlain. 4 mills.
Ruined castle. The first post-Reformation Roman Catholic church was built here.
Lyscombe
Liscome / a: Milton Abbey.
Lyscombe Farm. A nearby ruined 12th century chapel and priest's house were associated with Milton Abbey.
Lytchett Matravers
Lichet: William d'Eu.
Ancient. Becoming a suburb of Bournemouth and Poole. Sir John Matravers, buried in the 13th century church, was Edward II's gaoler and probable murderer.

Maiden Newton
Newetone: Waleran. 2 mills.
Carpet mill.
Mannington
Manitone: Count of Mortain.

Manston
Manestone: Waleran from the king. 2 mills.
Georgian manor house.
Mapperton (in Almer)
Mapledretone: Shaftesbury Abbey. 30 goats.

Mapperton (near Beaminster)
Malperetone / Malperretona: Arnulf de Hesdin; William de Mohun. Mill.
Mapperton House, a 16th century manor house. The original village was wiped out during the plague of 1665.
Mappowder
Mapledre: King's land; Count of Mortain; Hugh from William d'Eu; Bolle the priest from the king.

Martinstown
Wintreburne: Wife of Hugh FitzGrip. 380 sheep.
Stone, thatched houses.
Melbury Abbas
Meleberie: Shaftesbury Abbey. 4 mills.

Melbury Bubb
Melesberie / leberie: Dodman from Count of Mortain; Roger Arundel; Urse from Arnulf de Hesdin; Brictwin from the king.
Also Melbury Osmond.
Melcombe Horsey
Melcome: King's land.

Milborne St. Andrew
Meleburne: Matthew de Mortagne.
On a Roman road.
Milborne Stileham
Meleburne / orne:
Lost.
Milton Abbas
Mideltune / ona: Milton Abbey. Mill. 50 goats, 450 sheep.
Demolished and rebuilt a mile away from its original site by the Earl of Dorchester in the 18th century. He turned the medieval Milton Abbey into a grand house, now a public school.
Milton on Stour
Miltetone / Mideltone: Godmund the king's thane, the pre-Conquest holder; Roger from William de Falaise.
Nearby Purns Mill was painted by Constable.
Moorbath
Mordaat: Fulcred from the king.
Isolated.
Moor Crichel
Chirce: King's land.
Moved here in the 18th century when Crichel House was landscaped.
Morden
Mordone / -a / Mordune: Robert from Count of Mortain; Aiulf the Chamberlain; William Chernet from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip; Wulfric from the king. 2 mills.
Thatched cottages.
Moreton
Mourtune: Robert from Count of Mortain; Brictwin from the king. Mill.
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) is buried here.
Mosterton
Mortestorne: Richard de Reviers. Mill.

Moulham
Moleham: Durand Carpenter, the king's servant.
Lost in Swanage.

Netherbury
Niderberie: Monks of Sherborne. 2 mills.
Stone-built; mill-see on the River Brit; once a centre for flax milling.
Nettlecombe
Netelcome / a: Cerne Abbey.
Near Powerstock Castle.
Nutford
Nortforde / Nodford / -a: King's land; William Belette from the king.
France farm.
Nyland
Iland / Inlande: Count of Mortain; Thurstan FitzRolf.

Oborne
Wocburne: Monks of Sherborne. Mill.
The ruined church was a chapel for the monks of Sherborne.
Odenham
Odeham:
Lost.
Okeford FitzPaine
Adford: St. Mary's Glastonbury. Mill.

Orchard
Hocerd: Wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
West Orchard Farm.
Osmington
Osmentone: Milton Abbey. Mill.
Stone, thatched cottages, manor house. The figure of George III is cut into the chalk down above the village.
Ower
Ora: Milton Abbey. 13 saltworkers.

Ower Moigne
Ogre: Matthew de Mortagne. Mill.
13th century Court House, scene of a treacherous murder in the 16th century.

Pentridge
Pentric: King's land.
Remote; the Trantridge of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbevilles.
Petersham
Petrishesham: Odo FitzEverbold; Isolde. Mill.
Petersham Farm.
Piddle
Pidele:
Lost.
Piddlehinton
Pidele: Abbey of Marmoutier; Count of Mortain.
Stone-built, thatched houses.
Piddletrenthide
Pidrie: St. Peter's Winchester. 3 mills.
Straggling.
Pilsdon
Pilesdone: Edric the king's thane.
Tudor manor house.
Pimperne
Pinpre / a: King's land.
Neolithic barrow nearby.
Plumber
Plumbere: Swein, the king's thane, and Ralph from him.
Plumber Manor.
Poorton
Povertone / -a / Povrtone / Powrtone / -a / Bovetone: Abbotsbury Abbey; Tavistock Abbey; Arnulf de Hesdin; Roger Arundel; David the Interpreter. Mill. 1 mare, 32 goats.
Now North Poorton; thatched cottages.
Portesham
Portesham: Abbotsbury Abbey; the wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
17th century manor house, home of Admiral Hardy who fought with Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Portland
Porland: King's land. 900 sheep.
The Isle of Portland, famous for stone quarrying and its naval base.
Povington
Povintone: Robert FitzGerald. Mill.
In the danger area of the Lulworth army firing ranges.
Powerstock
Povrestoch / a: Hugh from Roger Arundel. 16 goats.
Earthwork of Norman Powerstock Castle; Iron Age fort nearby.
Poxwell
Pocheswelle / a: Cerne Abbey and Hugh's wife from the abbey.
17th century manor house.
Poytington
Ponditone / a: William from Count of Mortain. Mill.

Preston (in Tarrant Rushton)
Prestetune: Bishop of Lisieux.
Preston Farm.
Puddletown
Pretone: King's land; Bolle the priest. 2 mills.

Pulham
Poleham: Reinbald the priest from the king; William de Mohun. 15 goats, 170 sheep.

Puncknowle
Pomaconole / a: William de Moutiers from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip. Mill.
16th century manor house.
Purbeck
Porbi: King's land.
Possibly Purbeck Hill or land in vanished Purbeck Hundred.
Purse Caundle
Candel / e: Saeward from the king; Athelney Abbey; Alfred the Butler.
15th century Purse Caundle Manor. An earlier house was given by King John to John Alleyn who looked after sick or injured royal hounds.

Radipole
Retpole / a: Cerne Abbey.

Rampisham
Ramesham: Bishop of Bayeux.
Jacobean manor house.
Ranston
Iwerne: Robert from Robert FitzGerald.
Ranston House in Shroton village.
Renscombe
Romescumbe / Romescumba: Cerne Abbey. 2 cows, 250 wethers.
Renscombe Farm.
Ringstead
Ringestede / hestede / -a: Hugh de St. Quintin; Hugh and Ralph from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip; Brictric from the king. ½ mill.
Deserted; medieval village.
Rollington
Ragintone / a: Robert Tilly from Roger Arundel.
Rollington Farm.
Rushton
Ristone / a: William de Braose; Odo FitzEverbold; 2 men-at-arms from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip; Alward and Edric from the king. 4 sesters of honey.