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Wimborne Minster

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Wimborne Minster Dorset. Winburnan late 9th cent., Winburne 1086 (DB), Wymburneminstre 1236. Originally the name of the river here (now called Allen), ‘meadow stream’ from OE *winn + burna. Affix is OE mynster ‘monastery (church)’.

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