Toller Porcorum
| Toller Porcorum | |
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
 Toller Porcorum viewed from the south | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SY561980 |
| Location: | 50°46’46"N, 2°37’18"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 307 (2011) |
| Post town: | Dorchester |
| Postcode: | DT2 |
| Dialling code: | 01300 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dorset |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
West Dorset |
Toller Porcorum is a village in Dorset, situated in the Toller valley ten miles north-west of Dorchester. The 2011 census recoded that the civil parish, which also includes the small settlements of Higher and Lower Kingcombe to the north, had a population of 307.
Name and history
Like the other Toller villages of Toller Fratrum and Toller Whelme, the village takes its name from the river, which is now known as the Hooke. The addition Porcorum means of the pigs in Latin;[1] the village was in the past sometimes known as Swines Toller,[2] but more often as Great Toller. The Latin version was used as the church parish name, and from there came into more general use.
From 1862 to 1975 the village had a railway station, Toller Station, on the Bridport Railway.
About the village
The village pub, The Old Swan, was closed by the brewery in 1999 and has since been converted into a private dwelling. Skittles was played there.[3]
The village has an active village hall.[4]
Woolcombe, a gentle valley in the parish to the south-west of the village (SY558957), has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.[5]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Toller Porcorum) |
References
- ↑ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP40/647; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no647/aCP40no647fronts/IMG_0251.htm; first entry, seen as "Tolre Porcorum", the home of William Coterych, husbandman
- ↑ Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP40/ 629; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0314.htm; 5th entry, first defendant John Skynnere, husbandman, of Swynyn Tollere
- ↑ Jack Hargreaves explains a use for Hornbeam: Old Country - YouTube
- ↑ Toller Village Hall
- ↑ SSSI listing and designation for Woolcombe
