Manston, Dorset

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Manston
Dorset

Manston House
Location
Grid reference: ST815155
Location: 50°56’20"N, 2°15’54"W
Data
Population: 140  (2013 est.)
Post town: Sturminster Newton
Postcode: DT10
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Dorset

Manston is a small village in northern Dorset, lying next to the River Stour in the Blackmore Vale, a mile east of the town of Sturminster Newton.[1][2] It is within the county's Gillingham Hundred. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 140.

In 1086 in the Domesday Book Manston was recorded as Manestone;[3] it had 19 households, 8 ploughlands, 25 acres of meadow and 2 mills. The tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.

The parish church of St Nicholas has a 13th-century chancel, 14th-century nave and 15th-century west tower.[1]

The first legal cremation in Britain took place at Manston House in 1883,[4] carried out by Captain Thomas Hanham.[5]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Manston: An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, pages 143-145
  2. Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p17
  3. "Dorset H–R". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. 1999–2013. http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/dorset2.html. Retrieved 23 January 2015. 
  4. Burton-Page, Tony (August 2011). "Dorset Houses – A burning question". Dorset Life Magazine. http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2011/08/dorset-houses-%E2%80%93%C2%A0a-burning-question/. Retrieved 23 January 2015. 
  5. http://www.mmtrust.org.uk/mausolea/view/54/Hanham_Mausoleum Hanham Mausoleum