Manston, Dorset
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Manston is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, lying next to the River Stour in the Blackmore Vale, Script error: No such module "convert". east of Sturminster Newton. The geology of the parish consists mostly of Kimmeridge clay, with a thin strip of Corallian limestone in the west.[1][2]
History
In 1086 in the Domesday Book, Manston was recorded as Manestone;[3] it had 19 households, 8 ploughlands, Script error: No such module "convert". of meadow and 2 mills. It was in the hundred of Gillingham and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.[4]
The parish church of St Nicholas has a 13th-century chancel, 14th-century nave and 15th-century west tower.[1] The first legal cremation in Britain took place at Manston House in 1883,[5] carried out by Captain Thomas Hanham.[6]
In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 140.[7] Northwood Farm in Manston is a former dairy farm that converted to a grain farm. It grows oats, wheat and fava beans, and has received the Biocyclic Vegan Standard.[8]
References
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