Poyntington

Human settlement in England

Yeo Head

Unitary authority

Dorset

Dorset

Region

South West

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSherbornePostcode districtDT9Dialling code01963PoliceDorsetFire Dorset and Wiltshire Ambulance South Western UK Parliament

West Dorset

List of places: UK; England; Dorset

50°58′41″N 2°29′57″W / 50.978°N 2.4991°W / 50.978; -2.4991

Poyntington is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Sherborne. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 128.^[1]

Poyntington shares a grouped parish council, Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of Castleton, Goathill and Oborne.^[2] Historically the village was part of the hundred of Horethorne in neighbouring Somerset.^[3]

All Saints' Church has grown from an Anglo-Saxon two-room design and contains original Norman work. Murals on pillars were discovered in 1848^[4] but were destroyed by their exposure. Two stained-glass windows date from the fourteenth century. An unusual addition is a carving of an angel's wing which was blown off Amiens Cathedral in World War I and then donated to the church.^[5]

Notable residents

References

^ ^a ^b "Area: Poyntington (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
^ "Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council". Retrieved 3 February 2015.
^ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
^ Poyntington, Genuki, accessed July 2009
^ Poyntington Church Archived 7 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Dorset Historic Churches Trust, accessed July 2009