Purse Caundle
| Purse Caundle | |
 Purse Caundle manor house |
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  Purse Caundle |
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| Population | 90 [1] |
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| OS grid reference | ST695175 |
| District | West Dorset |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
Coordinates: 50°57′24″N 2°26′03″W / 50.9567°N 2.4342°W
Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Sherborne. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 90.[1]
Purse Caundle manor house was built in the 15th century under the instruction of Richard Long, who bought 575 acres of land here in 1428.[2] The manor's site was recorded as early as the Domesday Book in 1086, when it was a tenancy of Athelney Abbey.[3]
The village church provides the final resting place for the seventeenth-century physician Nathaniel Highmore, whose father was rector here.[4]
References
- 1 2 "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ↑ West Dorset, Holiday and Tourist Guide. West Dorset District Council. c. 1983. p. 17.
- ↑ Rodney Legg (March 2011). "Purse Caundle". Dorset Life Magazine. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
- ↑ Sir Frederick Treves (1906). Highways and Byways in Dorset. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. p. 320.
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