Adber

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Adber
Location within Dorset
OS grid reference ST597203
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Sherborne
Postcode district DT9
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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.




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