Manston, Dorset

Manston

Manston House
Manston
Manston shown within Dorset
Population 140 [1]
OS grid reference ST815155
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England

Manston is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, lying next to the River Stour in the Blackmore Vale in the North Dorset administrative district, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the town of Sturminster Newton. The geology of the parish consists mostly of Kimmeridge clay, with a thin strip of Corallian limestone in the west.[2][3]

In 1086 in the Domesday Book Manston was recorded as Manestone;[4] it had 19 households, 8 ploughlands, 25 acres (10 ha) of meadow and 2 mills. It was in the hundred of Gillingham and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.[5]

The parish church of St Nicholas has a 13th-century chancel, 14th-century nave and 15th-century west tower.[2] The first legal cremation in Britain took place at Manston House in 1883,[6]carried out by Captain Thomas Hanham.[7] In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 140.[1]


References

  1. 1 2 "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 'Manston', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 3, Central (London, 1970), pp. 143-145. British History Online. University of London. 2014. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  3. ↑ Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p17
  4. ↑ "Dorset H–R". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. 1999–2013. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Place: Manston". Open Domesday. domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  6. ↑ Burton-Page, Tony (August 2011). "Dorset Houses – A burning question". Dorset Life Magazine. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  7. ↑ http://www.mmtrust.org.uk/mausolea/view/54/Hanham_Mausoleum Hanham Mausoleum
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