Adber
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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Adber (formerly Eatan) is a hamlet in the civil parish of Trent in Dorset, England.[1][2] It is known as Ateberie in the Domesday Book.[3]
The toponym is Old English, from Ēata and bearu ("grove"), and means "grove of a man (or the saint) named Eata".[4]
Adber was in Somerset 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 the Civil War. [6]