Manston, Dorset
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237px Manston House |
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Manston shown within Dorset
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Population | 140 [1] |
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District | North 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 |
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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
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- ↑ Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p17
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- ↑ http://www.mmtrust.org.uk/mausolea/view/54/Hanham_Mausoleum Hanham Mausoleum
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