Gillingham Liberty

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Gillingham Liberty shown within Dorset

Gillingham Liberty is a hundred in Dorset, situated in the very north of the county, adjacent to the borders with Somerset and Wiltshire. It is bounded by Redlane to the south; by Sixpenny Handley to the east; by Wiltshire to the north; and by Somerset to the west. It had a population of 14,587 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