Place:Woolland, Dorset, England

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NameWoolland
Alt namesWinlandasource: Domesday Book (1985) p 96
Winlandesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 96
Woolandsource: A Vision of Britain through Time
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.85°N 2.317°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoWhiteway Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred of which the parish was a part
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Woolland is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale under Bulbarrow Hill west of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 50.[1] The village had a population of 76 in 2001.

The village is first mentioned in Cartularium Saxonicum from the year 939 Wonlond, the Domesday Book from the year 1086 Winlande and the Pipe Rolls from the year 1170 Wunlanda. The name is interpreted as Old English wynn-land meadow land or pasture land.

The sculptor Elisabeth Frink had a studio in the village during the 1970s.

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