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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