Purse Caundle

Purse Caundle

Purse Caundle manor house
Purse Caundle
 Purse Caundle shown within Dorset
Population 90 [1]
OS grid referenceST695175
DistrictWest Dorset
Shire countyDorset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
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Coordinates: 50°57′24″N 2°26′03″W / 50.9567°N 2.4342°W / 50.9567; -2.4342

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. 1 2 "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  2. West Dorset, Holiday and Tourist Guide. West Dorset District Council. c. 1983. p. 17.
  3. Rodney Legg (March 2011). "Purse Caundle". Dorset Life Magazine. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  4. Sir Frederick Treves (1906). Highways and Byways in Dorset. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. p. 320.

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