Silton

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Silton
Dorset

Parish church of St Nicholas, Silton
Location
Grid reference: ST783293
Location: 51°3’47"N, 2°18’46"W
Data
Population: 123
Post town: Gillingham
Postcode: SP8
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
North Dorset

Silton is a small village in northern Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale four miles north-west of Gillingham (and in the Gilllingham Hundred). The 2011 census noted that the parish had 57 households and a population of 123.

Silton is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Seltone;[1] it had 16 households, eleven and a half ploughlands, 28 acres of meadow and 4 mills. The tenant-in-chief was William of Falaise.[2] This original settlement was near the church, on a low ridge between the River Stour and a minor tributary to the south-west.[3]

Silton was for many years the country residence of Sir Hugh Wyndham (1602-1684), whose memorial by the sculptor Jan van Nost is in the parish church of St Nicholas. Wyndham's Oak, an historic tree named after Wyndham, stands nearby.[4]

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