Kington Magna
| Kington Magna | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Church, Kington Magna | |
| Population | 389 [1] |
| OS grid reference | ST765232 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | GILLINGHAM |
| Postcode district | SP8 |
| Dialling code | 01747 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
Kington Magna is a village and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale in the English county of Dorset, situated about 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-west of the town of Gillingham, in the North Dorset administrative district. The parish covers about 2,000 acres (810 ha) and, as well as the main village, includes the small settlement of Nyland in the west.[2] The main village is sited on the slopes of a Corallian limestone hill,[3] overlooking the flat Oxford Clay valley of the small River Cale, which drains into the Stour. In 1905 Sir Frederick Treves wrote that the village "straggles down hill like a small mountain stream."[4]
The name of Kington Magna means great 'King's Town'.[4][5] In 1086 in the Domesday Book it was recorded as Chintone;[6] it had 27 households, was in the hundred of Gillingham, and the tenant-in-chief was Arnulf of Hesdin.[7] Most of the current buildings in the village are no older than the seventeenth century. In 1860 a pottery was established at Bye Farm, north of the main village; it manufactured tiles, drainpipes, bricks, and chimney and flower pots. The parish church of All Saints was restored and enlarged in 1862;[8] most of the building, except for the late 15th-century west tower, was rebuilt.[2] Near the church is a pond which was a medieval fishpond.[8] In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 389.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Area: Kington Magna (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
- ^ a b "'Kington Magna', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset, Volume 4, North (London, 1972), pp. 41-43". British History Online. University of London. 2014. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ Ralph Wightman (1983). Portrait of Dorset. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 17. ISBN 0-7090-0844-9.
- ^ a b Sir Frederick Treves (1905). Highways and Byways in Dorset. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. p. 23.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ North Dorset District Council (c. 1983). North Dorset Official District Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. p. p37.
{{cite book}}:|page=has extra text (help) - ^ "Dorse H-R". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
- ^ "Place: [Little] Kington and Kington [Magna]". Open Domesday. domesdaymap.co.uk. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ^ a b Legg, Rodney; Hannay, Clive (December 2006). "Kington Magna". Dorset Life Magazine. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
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