Cheselbourne
| Cheselbourne | |
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
_-_geograph.org.uk_-_887187.jpg) 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.
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]
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References
- ↑ Ralph Wightman (1983). Portrait of Dorset (4 ed.). Robert Hale Ltd. pp. 107–8. ISBN 0 7090 0844 9.
- ↑ Cheselbourne: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, pages 73-79
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. pp. 88–9. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3.
- ↑ "Dorset A-G". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset1.html. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
