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Hamlet in Dorset, England

Human settlement in England

Adber
Adber
Adber Location withinDorset
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 (formerlyEatan) is ahamlet in thecivil parish ofTrent inDorset,England.^[1]^[2] It is known asAteberie in theDomesday Book.^[3]

The toponym isOld English, fromĒata andbearu ("grove"), and means "grove of a man (or thesaint) named Eata".^[4]

Adber was inSomerset 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 theCivil War.^[6]

^"Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer"(csv (download)). Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved30 January 2016.
^Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 183Yeovil & Frome (Shaftesbury & Shepton Mallet) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2011.ISBN 9780319228616.
^Professor J.J.N.Palmer."Open Doomsday: Adber". Anna Powell-Smith. Retrieved31 January 2016.
^"Adber".Key to English Place Names. University of Nottingham. Retrieved12 February 2025.
^Hart, J.W. (2020)."The Changing Boundaries of Somerset"(PDF). Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. p. 167. Retrieved12 February 2025.
^"National Gazetteer (1868) - Trent".GENUKI. Retrieved12 February 2025.

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