Tarrant Keyneston
| Tarrant Keyneston | |
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
 All Saints Church, Tarrant Keyneston | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST923047 |
| Location: | 50°50’25"N, 2°5’55"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 310 |
| Post town: | Blandford Forum |
| Postcode: | DT11 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dorset |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Dorset |
Tarrant Keyneston is a village in Dorset, situated in the Tarrant Valley five miles south-east of Blandford Forum in the north of the county. The 2011 census noted in the parish 152 dwellings, 145 households and a population of 310.
On the hills northwest of the village are the earthworks of Buzbury Rings (or Busbury Rings), the remains of an Iron Age and Romano-British fortified encampment or settlement,[1][2][3] described by Sir Frederick Treves in 1905 as "a circle of entrenchments, composed of a stout vallum and a ditch".[3] The outer enclosure covers about ten acres and within this is an inner enclosure, covering about three acres, which is the location of most of the finds from the site, including Roman pottery, animal bones and daub imprinted by wattles. The site has been much damaged by ploughing and by the road between Wimborne Minster and Blandford Forum, which crosses the site.[2]
The village's parish church has a 15th-century tower, though the rest of the building was rebuilt in 1852 by Thomas Henry Wyatt.[2] The chancel of the earlier building contained an anchorite's cell.[1]
Almost all of Tarrant Keyneston parish is within the 'Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty'.
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