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Stourpaine (/ staʊərˈpeɪn /) is a village and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the valley of the River Stour in the Dorset administrative district, three miles (five kilometres) northwest of Blandford Forum.
Welcome to Stourpaine. Stourpaine is our village in the Blackmore Vale. Centrally-placed in North Dorset, we see many holidaymakers pass us by who are then missing the surrounding countryside in its many-seasoned splendour. We straddle two Areas of Outstanding National Beauty: Dorset AONB and the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs AONB.
Sep 18, 2024 · Guide to Stourpaine, Dorset ancestry, family history, and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
STOURPAINE, a parish, with a village, and with Ashe tything, in Blandford district, Dorset; on the river Stour and on the Dorset and Somerset railway, 3 miles NNW of Blandford. It has a post-office under Blandford.
Anciently Stourpaine was well known for the celebration of bull baiting, cock fighting and other sports at the Trinity Feast. Today Stourpaine's main attraction is the National Trust's Hodd Hill, site of a D-shaped Roman fort, built within a conquered Ancient British fort.
Aug 19, 2024 · 46 STOURPAINE (8609) (O.S. 6 ins. ST 80 NE, ST 81 SE) The parish, of 2,300 acres, lies entirely upon Chalk on the E. bank of the R. Stour. The Iwerne Brook flows through the western part of the parish to join the Stour a little S. of the village.
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