WOODYATES (WEST), a liberty (extra-parochial),
in the hundred of WIMBORNE-ST-GILES, Shaston
(East) division of the county of DORSET, 5 miles (N.
N.W.) from Cranborne, containing 9 inhabitants. On
the neighbouring downs are numerous barrows, also
a vast rampart and fosse, termed Grimesditch, crossed
by the Roman road from Dorchester to Old Sarum.