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Cheselbourne
Dorset

Parish Church of St Martin
Location
Grid reference: SY763997
Location: 50°47’48"N, 2°20’17"W
Data
Population: 296  (2011)
Post town: Dorchester
Postcode: DT2
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
West Dorset

Cheselbourne (sometimes spelled Chesilborne[1] or Cheselborne) is a village in Dorset, in the Dorset Downs, seven miles north-east of Dorchester.[2] The 2011 census counted a parish population of 296.

The village, which contains a mix of buildings of different ages and styles, is spread along four lanes which meet here. It has a public house called the Rivers Arms. The 13th- to 14th-century parish church has a pinnacled tower with battlements, numerous gargoyles,[3] and a canonical sundial.

Canonical sundial on the parish church

In 1086 in the Domesday Book Cheselbourne is recorded as Ceseburne;[4] it had 36 households, 10 acres of meadow and one mill. The lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey.

Cheselbourne used to have a tradition known as 'Treading in the Wheat', in which young women from the village would walk the fields on Palm Sunday, dressed in white.[3]

At Lyscombe Farm in the north-west of the parish are the remains of an early 13th-century chapel. The nave was once used as a bakehouse and then a farmworker's dwelling, then in 1957 a barn was built over the ruins.[3]

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Cheselbourne)

References

  1. Ralph Wightman (1983). Portrait of Dorset (4 ed.). Robert Hale Ltd. pp. 107–8. ISBN 0 7090 0844 9. 
  2. Cheselbourne: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, pages 73-79
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. pp. 88–9. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3. 
  4. "Dorset A-G". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset1.html. Retrieved 27 February 2015.