Purse Caundle
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Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, about Script error: No such module "convert". east of Sherborne. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 90.[1]
Purse Caundle manor house was built in the 15th century under the instruction of Richard Long, who bought 575 acres of land here in 1428.[2] The manor's site was recorded as early as the Domesday Book in 1086, when it was a tenancy of Athelney Abbey.[3]
The village church provides the final resting place for the seventeenth-century physician Nathaniel Highmore, whose father was rector here.[4]
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