Winterborne Clenston

Human settlement in England

Winterborne Clenston

The Manor House, Winterborne Clenston

Winterborne Clenston

Location within Dorset

Population| 40 (2013 est.)
OS grid reference| ST838031
Civil parish|

* Winterborne Clenston

Unitary authority|

* Dorset

Ceremonial county|

* Dorset

Region|

* South West

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| BLANDFORD FORUM
Postcode district| DT11
Dialling code| 01258
Police| Dorset
Fire| Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance| South Western
UK Parliament|

* North Dorset

List of places

England
Dorset

50°49′37″N 2°13′48″W﻿ / ﻿50.827°N 2.230°W﻿ / 50.827; -2.230

Winterborne Clenston is a small village and civil parish in Dorset, England, around 3+1⁄2 miles (5.5 kilometres) southwest of Blandford Forum. In 2013 the civil parish had an estimated population of 40.[1]

The first part of the village name comes from the River Winterborne, which flows from north to south through the village.[2] The river only flows overground during the winter, hence the name. In 1312 the patron of the church was Roger de Clencheston, who most likely had a farm here, after which the second part of the village name derives.[3]

To the north of the village is Winterborne Stickland and to the south is Winterborne Whitechurch. The river flows through both these villages as well.[4]

The parish church of St Nicholas dates from 1840. It is built in bands of stone and flint and has a spire on top of a narrow tower. It stands alone above the Winterborne on the site of an earlier church.[3]

The village manor is a late-15th- to early-16th-century building of Purbeck and Portland stone with courses of flint. It was built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and is a Grade I listed building.[5] It has mullioned windows and a gabled staircase turret on the west side.[3][6] Nearby is a sixteenth-century tithe-barn with a hammerbeam roof, also a listed building but falling into disrepair. In 2008, Historic England funded the erection of scaffolding and temporary repairs to the structure, but by 2016, a permanent repair had not been made.[7]

About 100 metres (300 feet) east of the manor house is a field barn which is also a Grade II listed building. It is also built in bands of flint and stone and has a door made of planks and a thatched roof. It forms an important group with the Manor House and the Manor House Barn.[8]

## See also

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* Winterbourne (stream)

## References

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1. ^ "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 20 January 2015. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
2. ^ "Dorset: Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty - Walking the River Winterborne" (PDF). Dorset AONB Partnership. 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
3. ^ a b c Gant, Roland (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 180\. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3.
4. ^ "Dorchester, Weymouth and surrounding area" (Map). Landranger 194. Ordnance Survey.
5. ^ "Manor House, Winterborne Clenston". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
6. ^ Accessed 31 Mar 2023 Youtube video by ethnography Jack Hargreaves visiting site in early 1980s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pk_x-mbNow&list=TLPQMDEwNDIwMjPv9zUWvDQDJg&index=6
7. ^ "Manor Farm Barn, Winterborne Clenston - North Dorset". Heritage at risk. Historic England. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
8. ^ "Barn approximately 100 metres west of Winterborne Clenston Manor House". Historic England. Retrieved 26 August 2016.

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Towns, villages and hamlets in the former North Dorset district of Dorset, England

* Anderson
* Ansty
* Ashmore
* Bagber
* Belchalwell
* Blandford Forum
* Blandford St Mary
* Bourton
* Bryanston
* Buckhorn Weston
* Cann
* Charlton Marshall
* Chettle
* Child Okeford
* Compton Abbas
* Durweston
* East Orchard
* East Stour
* Farnham
* Fifehead Magdalen
* Fifehead Neville
* Fontmell Magna
* Gillingham
* Glanvilles Wootton
* Hammoon
* Hazelbury Bryan
* Hilton
* Hinton St Mary
* Ibberton
* Iwerne Courtney
* Iwerne Minster
* Kington Magna
* Langton Long Blandford
* Lydlinch
* Manston
* Mappowder
* Margaret Marsh
* Marnhull
* Melbury Abbas
* Milborne St Andrew
* Milton Abbas
* Motcombe
* Okeford Fitzpaine
* Pimperne
* Pulham
* Shaftesbury
* Shillingstone
* Silton
* Spetisbury
* Stalbridge
* Stoke Wake
* Stourpaine
* Stour Provost
* Stour Row
* Stourton Caundle
* Sturminster Newton
* Sutton Waldron
* Tarrant Crawford
* Tarrant Gunville
* Tarrant Hinton
* Tarrant Keyneston
* Tarrant Launceston
* Tarrant Monkton
* Tarrant Rawston
* Tarrant Rushton
* Todber
* Turnworth
* West Orchard
* West Stour
* Winterborne Clenston
* Winterborne Houghton
* Winterborne Kingston
* Winterborne Stickland
* Winterborne Whitechurch
* Winterborne Zelston
* Woolland

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