Alton Pancras is a village in west Dorset, England, situated in the Piddle valley 6 miles north of Dorchester and 15 miles south of Sherborne. The village has a population of 165 (2001). Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... The River Piddle or Trent or North River is a small rural Dorset river which rises next to Alton Pancras church (Alton Pancras was originally named Awultune, a Saxon name meaning the village at the source of a river) and flows south and then south-easterly more or less parallel... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ... The main road through Dorchester Dorchester is a market town in south west Dorset, England, situated on the River Frome and A35 road 20 miles west of Poole and five miles north of Weymouth. ... Sherborne Abbey Sherborne is an affluent market town in north west Dorset, England, situated on the River Yeo and A30 road, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale six miles east of Yeovil. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
It was formerly also a liberty, containing only the parish itself. A Liberty was a local government unit in England. ...
See List of hundreds in Dorset // List of Dorset Hundreds Before the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 introduced the local government unit of the Poor Law Union, or, commonly, Union, which influenced the subsequent shape of local government divisions, the county of Dorset had since the Anglo-Saxon period been divided into hundreds and boroughs (and...
AltonPancras is a small village, 8 miles north from Dorchester, 2 miles east from Cerne and 18 south-west from Blandford, in the division and Union of Cerne and diocese of Salisbury.
AltonPancras is a parish and small village, 6 miles north from Dorchester, and 2 miles east from Cerne, in the division and Union of Cerne and diocese of Salisbury.
AltonPancras is a parish and small village,8 miles north from Dorchester, and 2 east from Cerne, in the division and Union of Cerne, Dorchester county court district, diocese of Salisbury, archdeaconry of Dorset, and deanery of Whitchurch.
AltonPancras was originally named Awultune, a Saxon name meaning the village at the source of a river.
The village church is dedicated to St. Pancras and by the time of the Battle of Agincourt the village had come to be known as Aulton Pancras, hence the modern day AltonPancras.
All the is left of the original church is the 15th century tower and part of the Norman archway, having been totally rebuilt in the 19th century when it was in a state of near collapse.
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