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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.
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.
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(1) The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, at theS. end of the village, was rebuilt in 1858 with the exception of the West Towerwhich is of the second half ofthe 15th century. Three three-light windows from theold church were restored and reset in the N. wall of thenew nave; the two to the W. were of 15th-centuryorigin; that to the E. was probably ...
(2) Lazerton Farm (86381032), house, 5/8m. N. ofthe church, is two-storied with attics and has walls ofashlar, rubble and brick, and roofs covered with modernslates; the E. range (Plate 57) was built in the first halfof the 17th century and there are 19th-century additionson the W. The original E. front, of ashlar, is symmetrical, with five bayson ...
(7) Settlement Remainsof the former village ofLazerton (864106) survived until recently in the extremeN. of the parish, along the E. side of the R. Iwerne. Lazerton was an independent parish and was one of the'Iwernes' of Domesday Book; it has been identified by Eyton(137–8) as the three-hide manor of Edwinus (D.B. Vol. I, f. 84a),with a recorded p...
(11) Hod Hill Iron Age Hill-fort and RomanFort (856107). In area the hill-fort is the largest inDorset, its multiple ramparts enclosing 54 acres. Itoccupies the domed top of an isolated chalk hill risingto 471 ft. above O.D. at the N.W., where the laterRoman fort was built in the angle of the Iron Ageearthwork. Except on the S. there are steep slop...
(13) Enclosure (875094), visible only on air photographs(St. Joseph OAP. AT 40), lies on top of a small rounded hill atabout 420 ft. O.D., immediately S.E. of Down End FarmBuildings. It is a roughly circular area of 8 acres bounded by aditch 5 ft. to 10 ft. wide; there are traces of an inturned entranceon the S. side but there are no internal featu...
Welcome to Stourpaine Parish Council website. The Parish of Stourpaine is situated on the east bank of the river Stour, approximately 2.5 miles north of Blandford Forum. The older part of the village generally lies to the west of the main road.
Stourpaine is our village in the Blackmore Vale in North Dorset, England, on the River Stour. The Parish Church of the Holy Trinity. The foundation of Holy Trinity goes back before written records. There is no definite knowledge of when the first church was built and it is not certain whether or not there was a Saxon Church.
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Stourpaine (/ s t aʊər ˈ p eɪ n /) 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.
