Toller Whelme

Toller Whelme
Dorset
Manor House, Toller Whelme
Location
Grid reference:	ST516015
Location:	50°48’39"N, 2°41’11"W
Data
Post town:	Dorchester
Postcode:	DT8
Dialling code:	01308
Local Government
Council:	Dorset
Parliamentary constituency:	West Dorset

Toller Whelme is a small village in Dorset, about two and a half miles east of Beaminster, sx miles north of Bridport and thirteen miles north-west of the county town, Dorchester. There are just seven homes here, including: West Farm, Norcombe Hayes, Manor House, West Farm Cottage, East Farm Cottage, East Farm and Lake Farm.

Toller Whelme takes its name from the River Toller (the former name of the present River Hooke), at the source of which it stands: the second element Whelme is from the word for river source or spring in the Old English language. It has occasionally in the past also been known as Pinny's Toller or Penny Toller, from the name of the landowning Pinney family formerly established here at the manor house.

Older buildings in the village include the manor house, a nearby converted barn, and two nearby adjoining cottages (East Farm Cottage and West Farm cottage). The Manor House perimeter wall exterior exhibits 'sockets' that in the past held the roof joists of a series of small lean-to style cottages that no longer exist. In the village there is also a farm, with a relatively new farmhouse structure. A lake was created in front of the farmhouse in the 1970s to provide water for the farm cattle during drought conditions.

Toller Whelme is a modern ecclesiastical parish, formed in 1871 from the ancient parish of Corscombe; the parish church, St John, was built the previous year.

See also

• Toller Fratrum
• Toller Porcorum

Outside links

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