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[[File:Comb's Ditch Hundred - Dorset.svg|thumb|250px|Coomb's Ditch Hundred shown within Dorset]]
 
[[File:Comb's Ditch Hundred - Dorset.svg|thumb|250px|Coomb's Ditch Hundred shown within Dorset]]
'''Coomb's Ditch''' or '''Comb's Ditch''' is a [[hundred]] in [[Dorset]], situated in the centre of the county. It had a population of 2,122 in 2011.
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'''Coomb's Ditch''' or '''Comb's Ditch''' is a [[hundred]] in [[Dorset]], situated in the centre of the county. It is named after [[Combs Ditch]], the Iron Age earthwork. The hundred had a population of 2,122 in 2011.
  
 
It contains the following ancient parishes:
 
It contains the following ancient parishes:

Latest revision as of 14:01, 6 July 2020

Coomb's Ditch Hundred shown within Dorset

Coomb's Ditch or Comb's Ditch is a hundred in Dorset, situated in the centre of the county. It is named after Combs Ditch, the Iron Age earthwork. The hundred had a population of 2,122 in 2011.

It contains the following ancient parishes:


Hundreds of Dorset

Badbury • Barrow • Beaminster and Redhone (including Bridport) • Bere Regis • Brownshall • Buckland and Sturminster Newton Castle • Cerne, Totcombe and Modbury • Cogdean (including Poole) • Coomb's Ditch • Corfe Castle • Cranborne • Culliford Tree • Eggerton • George • Gillingham Liberty • Godderthorne • Hasilor • Knowlton • Loosebarrow • Pimperne (including Blandford Forum) • Puddletown (including Weymouth) • Redlane • Rowbarrow • Rushmoor • Sherborne • Sixpenny Handley (including Shaftesbury) • Tollerford • Uggscombe (including Dorchester) • Upwimborne • Whitchurch Canonicorum (including Lyme Regis) • Whiteway • Winfrith (including Wareham) • Yetminster