Woolland

Human settlement in England

Woolland

Woolland Church

Woolland

Location within Dorset

Population| 50
OS grid reference| ST776069
Unitary authority|

* Dorset

Shire county|

* Dorset

Region|

* South West

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| Blandford Forum
Postcode district| DT11
Police| Dorset
Fire| Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance| South Western
UK Parliament|

* North Dorset

List of places

England
Dorset

50°51′41″N 2°19′12″W﻿ / ﻿50.8615°N 2.32°W﻿ / 50.8615; -2.32

Woolland is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale under Bulbarrow Hill 7 miles (11 km) west of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 50.[1] The village had a population of 76 in 2001.

The village is first mentioned in Cartularium Saxonicum from the year 939 Wonlond, the Domesday Book from the year 1086 Winlande and the Pipe Rolls from the year 1170 Wunlanda. The name is interpreted as Old English wynn-land meadow land or pasture land.

The sculptor Elisabeth Frink had a studio in the village during the 1970s.

## References

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1. ^ "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2015.

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Woolland.

* Frink statue of Christian Martyrs

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Towns, villages and hamlets in the North Dorset district of Dorset, England

* Anderson
* Ansty
* Ashmore
* Bagber
* Belchalwell
* Blandford Forum
* Blandford St Mary
* Bourton
* Bryanston
* Buckhorn Weston
* Cann
* Charlton Marshall
* Chettle
* Child Okeford
* Compton Abbas
* Durweston
* East Orchard
* East Stour
* Farnham
* Fifehead Magdalen
* Fifehead Neville
* Fontmell Magna
* Gillingham
* Glanvilles Wootton
* Hammoon
* Hazelbury Bryan
* Hilton
* Hinton St Mary
* Ibberton
* Iwerne Courtney
* Iwerne Minster
* Kington Magna
* Langton Long Blandford
* Lydlinch
* Manston
* Mappowder
* Margaret Marsh
* Marnhull
* Melbury Abbas
* Milborne St Andrew
* Milton Abbas
* Motcombe
* Okeford Fitzpaine
* Pimperne
* Pulham
* Shaftesbury
* Shillingstone
* Silton
* Spetisbury
* Stalbridge
* Stoke Wake
* Stourpaine
* Stour Provost
* Stour Row
* Stourton Caundle
* Sturminster Newton
* Sutton Waldron
* Tarrant Crawford
* Tarrant Gunville
* Tarrant Hinton
* Tarrant Keyneston
* Tarrant Launceston
* Tarrant Monkton
* Tarrant Rawston
* Tarrant Rushton
* Todber
* Turnworth
* West Orchard
* West Stour
* Winterborne Clenston
* Winterborne Houghton
* Winterborne Kingston
* Winterborne Stickland
* Winterborne Whitechurch
* Winterborne Zelston
* Woolland

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