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From: Diana Trenchard< >
Subject: Re: Barbridge and Camesworth
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 15:32:48 +0100


>At 03:04 PM 7/30/98 +0100, Chris House wrote:
>>Does anyone know the whereabouts of these two properties which were named
>>in one of my ancestor's wills?
>>
>
>Brian Tomkins replied:
>According to the Ordnance Survey, Camesworth is in Dorset at GridReference
>SY4797, which places it between Bradpole and Waytown, just to the north of
>Bridport in West Dorset.
>
>Although to small to be named, a map can be found at:-
>http://uk.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?GridE=347000&GridN=97000&local=o&place
>=SY4797&db=grid

My 'old style' two and a half inches to the mile OS map locates these two
farms within a mile or so of each other.

CAMESWORTH is just over halfway along the road going east from Waytown to
join the A3066 road from Bridport to Beaminster. The road is shaped like a
back-to-front 'S', and Camesworth is at the outside corner of the lower
curve.

BARBRIDGE FARM is on the east side of the village of Melplash on the same
A3066 road. It appears to be on the site of the former Melplash Farm.
There is also a Barbridge Coppice about half a mile north east of Barbridge
Farm.

Best wishes,

Diana

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