Kington Magna
| Kington Magna | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Church, Kington Magna | |
| OS grid reference | ST765232 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
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
- ^ Ralph Wightman (1983). Portrait of Dorset. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 17. ISBN 0 7090 0844 9.
- ^ North Dorset District Council (c. 1983). North Dorset Official District Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. p. p37.
{{cite book}}:|page=has extra text (help) - ^ a b c Sir Frederick Treves (1905). Highways and Byways in Dorset. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. p. 23.
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