STRATTON, after being completed on 7 January 1959, was Commissioned into the SAN on 5th June 1959 and re-named ‘KIMBERLEY’.
VILLAGE
In Dorset, 3 miles North West of Dorchester.
Name deives from Saxon "Farm on the High Road"
Remains of Celtic settlement on the Downs, also Bronze Age Burial Barrows.
On the Roman road to Durnovaria, (Dorchester).
No recent history.
KIMBERLEY is the capital city of South Africa's Northern Cape Province, famous for diamond mining.
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