This description of Corfe Castle, Dorset, England is taken from The representative history of Great Britain and Ireland by Thomas Hinton Burley Oldfield published in 1816.
Corfe Castle, a borough and market-town in the hundred of Hasilor, division of Blandford, Dorset, I5 miles from Poole, and 120 from London; containing 263 houses arid 1,344 inhabitants, of whom 70 were returned as being chiefly employed in trade and manufacture, mostly in that of clay, which is used for the potteries in Staffordshire, and in working stone quarries. By an enumeration taken in 1790, it appears to have increased since that time by 9.5 persons.
