| Name | Woodyates |
| Alt names | Odiete | source: Domesday Book (1985) p 96 | | West Woodyates | source: village in parish | | East Woodyates | source: village in parish |
| Type | Extra parochial area, Civil parish |
| Coordinates | 50.967°N 1.95°W |
| Located in | Dorset, England ( - 1933) |
| See also | Cranborne Hundred, Dorset, England | hundred in which it was part located | | Wimborne St. Giles Hundred, Dorset, England | hundred in which it was part located | | Wimborne and Cranborne Rural, Dorset, England | rural district in which it was situated 1894-1933 | | Pentridge, Dorset, England | civil parish into which it was absorbed 1933 |
- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the following text is based on an article in Wikipedia
Woodyates was a civil parish made up of two small hamlets, East Woodyates and West Woodyates, in the county of Dorset, England, near its border with Wiltshire. It ceased to be a parish in 1933 when it was absorbed into the neighbouring parish of Pentridge. The original extra parochial area was partly in Cranborne Hundred (East Woodyates) and partly in Wimborne St. Giles Hundred (West Woodyates).
The topographer James Bell described it thus in 1835 -
- "WOODYATES (West), an extra-parochial liberty, in the hundred of Wimborne-St-Giles, Shaston (East) division of the co. of Dorset. It consists of a single farm, and is crossed by the Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum."
(Source: James Bell, A new and comprehensive gazetteer of England and Wales (1835), p. 389)
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