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    Melbury Sampford is a village and civil parish 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Dorchester, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England...
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    Melbury House is an English country house in the parish of Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset. The Grade I listed mansion is the home of the Honorable...
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  • Abbas Melbury House in Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset, the seat of the Strangways family of Dorset since 1500 Melbury Osmond, village and civil...
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    John Browning (c. 1369–1416) (alias Brounyng, etc.) of Melbury Sampford in Dorset and of Leigh near Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, was thrice a member of...
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    Thomas Strangways (1643–1713) of Melbury House in Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English...
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    Sir Giles Strangways (1486 – 11 December 1546), of Melbury House, Melbury Sampford, and of Abbotsbury, both in Dorset, was an English politician. He was...
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    Nathaniel Whittock's bird's-eye view of the City of York in the 1850s "Melbury Sampford Parish Records, Dorset". opcdorset.org. Retrieved 10 January 2023....
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    Sir Giles Strangways (1528 – 11 April 1562), of Melbury Sampford, Dorset, was five times MP for Dorset in 1553, 1554, 1555, 1558 and 1559. He was the eldest...
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    John Strangways (27 September 1585 – 30 December 1666) of Melbury House, Melbury Sampford, Somerset, and of Abbotsbury in Dorset, was an English politician...
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    Fox-Strangways inherited Holland House in 1874, he was living in Melbury House in Melbury Sampford, Dorset, where he owned large estates. It appears that the...
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