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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"A liberty was an English unit originating in the Middle Ages, traditionally defined as an area in which regalian right was revoked and where the land was held by a mesne lord (i.e. an area in which rights reserved to the king had been devolved into private hands).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."
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The following description of Frampton Liberty is from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72 is provided by the website A Vision of Britain Through Time (University of Portsmouth Department of Geography).
- "The liberty contains five parishes, and part of another; and is partly in Dorchester [registration] division, partly in Bridport [registration] division. Acres: 7,751 and 3,347. Population: 897 and 1,061. Houses: 175 and 208."
It included the following parishes:
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