Purse Caundle
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Coordinates: 50°57′22″N 2°26′02″W / 50.956°N 2.434°W
| Purse Caundle | |
 Purse Caundle manor house |
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  Purse Caundle Purse Caundle shown within Dorset | |
| Population | 107 |
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| OS grid reference | ST695175 |
| District | West Dorset |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Sherborne. As of 2001 the population of the parish is 107.
Purse Caundle is based around the large fifteenth-century manor house, which was built under the instruction of Richard Long, who bought 575 acres of land here in 1428.[1]
The village church provides the final resting place for the seventeenth-century physician Nathaniel Highmore, whose father was rector here.[2]
References
- ↑ West Dorset Holiday and Tourist Guide. West Dorset District Council. circa 1983. p. 17.
- ↑ Sir Frederick Treves (1905). Highways and Byways in Dorset. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. p. 320.
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