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mile (800 metres) from Farnham village centre. The village's inn became the Museum Hotel to cater for visitors, which numbered 12,000 per year at the peak of the museum's popularity. The Farnham collection was dispersed in the 1970s, with the British items going to the
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to the north of Farnham village, was previously owned by the de Tollard family of Tollard Royal, and until 1885, when it was joined with Farnham, its dead were taken along a track named Burials Drove to be buried at Tollard Royal.
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field systems were created in the surrounding area generally, though traces haven't survived at Farnham. The present-day Farnham village has emerged from five separate settlements associated with clearings in hazel
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is recorded five times, though not all the entries refer to the present-day settlement. The book records 12 households with a total taxable value of 6 geld units. The county's
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of the hills of Cranborne Chase. It covers 1,420 acres (570 ha) at an approximate altitude of 75 to 150 metres (250 to 500 feet) and geologically comprises
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The old museum building at Crossways, where Pitt Rivers housed his personal collection. The building is now private residences.
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specimens for his personal collection, which was held in the former Orphan Gypsy School at Crossways, about
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In the 2011 census Farnham civil parish had 105 dwellings, 92 households and a population of 183.
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The population of the parish in the censuses between 1921 and 2001 is shown in the table below:
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lived nearby on the Rushmore Estate. Following his donation of some 20,000 antiquities to the
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Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers biography at the Pitt Rivers Museum History, 1884–1945
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Farnham parish is situated at the head of the valley of the small Gussage Brook, on the
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For much of its history Farnham has been closely connected with
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at the time, Aiulf the chamberlain, owned some of the land.
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Census Population of Farnham Parish 1921—2001 (except 1941)
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The early settlement history of Farnham isn't clear.
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Farnham is located in Dorset
Dorset
OS grid reference
ST958151
Civil parish
District
North Dorset
Shire county
Dorset
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
Post town
Postcode district
DT11
Dialling code
Police
Dorset
Fire
Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
North Dorset
UK
England
Dorset

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