Kington Magna

Kington Magna
Kington Magna
	All Saints' Church, Kington Magna
OS grid reference	ST765232
District	North Dorset;
Shire county	Dorset;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
	List of places UK England Dorset

51°00′21″N 2°20′21″W / 51.0058°N 2.3391°W / 51.0058; -2.3391 Kington Magna is a village in the English county of Dorset. It is sited on the slopes of a Corallian limestone hill within the Blackmore Vale,^[1] overlooking the flat Oxford Clay valley of the small River Cale, which drains into the Stour. The village lies within the North Dorset administrative district of the county, about 3.5 miles (5.6 km)^* south-west of the town of Gillingham.

The name of Kington Magna means great 'King's Town',^[2]^[3] and the parish "figures conspicuously in the Domesday Book."^[3] However most of the current buildings are no older than the seventeenth century. In 1905 Sir Frederick Treves wrote that the village "straggles down hill like a small mountain stream."^[3] In the 2001 Census it had a population of 376.

References

^ Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p17
^ North Dorset District Council, Official District Guide, Home Publishing Co. Ltd., c.1983, p37
^ ^a ^b ^c Treves, Sir F., Highways and Byways in Dorset, Macmillan, 1905, p23

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[1] Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p17

[2] North Dorset District Council, Official District Guide, Home Publishing Co. Ltd., c.1983, p37

[Treves-3] Treves, Sir F., Highways and Byways in Dorset, Macmillan, 1905, p23

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