Adber

Adber
Adber
Adber Location within Dorset
OS grid reference	ST597203
Civil parish	Trent
Unitary authority	Dorset
Ceremonial county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Sherborne
Postcode district	DT9
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	West Dorset
List of places UK England Dorset 50°58′48″N2°34′28″W / 50.98000°N 2.57444°W / 50.98000; -2.57444

Adber (formerly Eatan) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Trent in Dorset, England. ^{[1] [2]} It is known as Ateberie in the Domesday Book. ^[3]

The toponym is Old English, from Ēata and bearu ("grove"), and means "grove of a man (or the saint) named Eata". ^[4]

Adber was in Somerset until 1896, when the parish of Trent was transferred to Dorset. ^[5]

Adber has no church. Until the 17th century it had a chapel, but it was destroyed in the Civil War. ^[6]

References

1. "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
2. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 183 Yeovil & Frome (Shaftesbury & Shepton Mallet) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2011. ISBN   9780319228616.
3. Professor J.J.N.Palmer. "Open Doomsday: Adber". Anna Powell-Smith. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
4. "Adber". Key to English Place Names. University of Nottingham. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
5. Hart, J.W. (2020). "The Changing Boundaries of Somerset" (PDF). Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. p. 167. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
6. "National Gazetteer (1868) - Trent". GENUKI . Retrieved 12 February 2025.

External links

• Media related to Adber at Wikimedia Commons
• Adber in the Domesday Book