Purse Caundle

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Purse Caundle
Dorset

Purse Caundle manor house
Location
Grid reference: ST695175
Location: 50°57’24"N, 2°26’3"W
Data
Population: 90  (2013 est.)
Post town: Sherborne
Postcode: DT9
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
West Dorset

Purse Caundle is a village in Dorset about four miles east of Sherborne. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 90.

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. The manor's site was recorded as early as the Domesday Book in 1086, when it was a tenancy of Athelney Abbey.[1]

The village church provides the final resting place for the seventeenth-century physician Nathaniel Highmore, whose father was rector here.[2]

Outside links

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References

  1. Rodney Legg (March 2011). "Purse Caundle". Dorset Life Magazine. http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2011/03/purse-caundle/. Retrieved 26 March 2014. 
  2. Sir Frederick Treves (1906). Highways and Byways in Dorset. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. p. 320.