Poyntington is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Sherborne. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 128.[1]

Poyntington shares a grouped parish council, Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of Castleton, Goathill and Oborne.[2] Until 1896 the village was in Somerset,[3] part of the hundred of Horethorne.[4]

All Saints' Church has grown from an Anglo-Saxon two-room design and contains original Norman work. Murals on pillars were discovered in 1848[5] but were destroyed by their exposure. Two stained-glass windows date from the fourteenth century. An unusual addition is a carving of an angel's wing which was blown off Amiens Cathedral in World War I and then donated to the church.[6]

Notable residents

References

  1. ^ a b "Area: Poyntington (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 15 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council". Retrieved 3 February 2015.
  3. ^ Hart, J.W. (2020). "The Changing Boundaries of Somerset" (PDF). Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. p. 167. Retrieved 12 February 2025.
  4. ^ "Somerset Hundreds". GENUKI. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  5. ^ Poyntington, Genuki, accessed July 2009
  6. ^ Poyntington Church Archived 7 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Dorset Historic Churches Trust, accessed July 2009

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