Winterborne Stickland
| Winterborne Stickland | |
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
 Winterborne Stickland | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | ST835046 |
| Location: | 50°50’26"N, 2°14’7"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 520 |
| Post town: | Blandford Forum |
| Postcode: | DT11 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dorset |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North Dorset |
| Website: | Winterborne Stickland PC |
Winterborne Stickland is a village in the north of Dorset (in the county's Pimperne Hundred, about four miles west of the town of Blandford Forum. In 2013 an estimate put the parish population at 520.
The village stands in a valley besie the course of a winterbourne known as the River Winterborne, in the Dorset Downs. The stream gives the village the first part of its name. The second part, 'Stickland' is from the Old English sticol meaning "steep".[1]
Nearby is the Blandford Forest, a scattered area of woodlands north-west of Blandford Forum.
History
The Domesday Book of 1086[2] records the canons of Coutances (St Mary), Normandy, as the tenant-in-chief in 1066 with no change by 1086, after the conquest.
The book records that the manor had 12 villagers, 20 smallholders, 5 slaves, 9 ploughlands, 4 lord's plough teams, 4 men's plough teams, 3.75 lord's lands, pasture of 26 by 4 furlongs, woodland of 5 by 4 furlongs and 1 mill valued at 12 shillings and 5 pence.
The annual value to the lord was 15 pounds in 1086. The 37 households place Winterborne Stickland in the largest 20% of settlements recorded.
The church
The parish Church of St Mary is a Grade I listed building. The nave and chancel date from the thirteenth century, the tower from around 1500 and the south porch from the sixteenth century. Restoration work took place in 1892. The building is constructed of bands of stone and flint and there is a north tomb chamber. The tower is on the west end and is in two stages; it has diagonal buttresses, pinnacles and a parapet surrounded by battlements. The interior is plastered and whitewashed and has a possibly mediæval ribbed wagon roof.
The font, hexagonal pulpit and the panelling in the tomb chamber are eighteenth century. The screen between the chancel and tomb chamber may use parts of the fifteenth century rood screen.
There are various seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century monuments, and the table tomb in the tomb chamber is dedicated to Thomas and Barbara Skinner.[3]
The village
To the north of the village is a children's playground, cricket pitch and football pitch with clubhouse. To the north of that a small orchard of apple, pear and plum trees has been planted
Many of the thatched cottages in the village are listed buildings.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Winterborne Stickland) |
References
- ↑ Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 78. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3.
- ↑ Winterborne Stickland: The Domesday Book
- ↑ National Heritage List 1305111: Church of St Mary, Winterborne Stickland
