Place:Dewlish Liberty, Dorset, England

Wikipedia provides the following definition of a "liberty":

"A liberty was an English unit originating in the Middle Ages, traditionally defined as an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e. an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands). It later became a unit of local government administration."

This is the first paragraph of a longer article.

Dewlish Liberty included the following parishes:

• Dewlish
• Hermitage
• Milborne St. Andrew
• Minterne Magna (part)
• Stockland (part) (ie, Dalwood, transferred to Devon 1844)