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Sandford Orcas
Sanford / a: Humphrey the Chamberlain.
Early Tudor church; haunted manor house.
Seaborough
Seveberge / -a / Sewebeorga / Sewoberga: Bishop of Salisbury and Walton Tirrell from him. ½ mill.
Ancient manor farm.
Shaftesbury
Sceptesberie: King's land, Shaftesbury Abbey before and after 1066.
Ancient hill town, with the foundations of the abbey, originally endowed by King Alfred.
Shapwick
Scapewic: King's land. 3 mills.
Remote.
Sherborne
Scireburne: Bsihop of Salisbury, formerly Queen Edith.
1000 year old town, dominated by Sherborne Abbey.
Shilvinghampton
Silfemetone, Scilfemetone / Sevenetone / Sefemetona: Edwin, the king's thane.
Remote.
Shipton Gorge
Sepetone / a: King's land.
Stone-built; modern housing.
Silton
Seltone: William de Falaise. 3 mills.
Remote.
Sixpenny Handley
Hanlege: Shaftesbury Abbey.
Scattered; manor farm nearby; once a smuggling centre.
Smedmore
Metmore: Richard from William de Braose.
17th century Smedmore House, near Kimmeridge.
South Perrott
Pedret: William from Earl Hugh.
Stone-built. Charles I stayed here after his victory at Lostwithiel.
Spetisbury
Spetsberie / Spehtesberie / Spestesberia: William de Mohun.
Fine thatched houses; near Spetisbury Rings, an Iron Age earthwork.
Stafford
Staford / Stafort: Robert from Count of Mortain; Hugh and William from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
Now the village of West Stafford.
Stalbridge Weston
Westone: Bishop of Salisbury.
Manor farm nearby.
Stanton St. Gabriel
Stantone: Alfred from Count of Mortain.
Ruined 13th century chapel, once a smuggler's hiding place.
Steeple
Stiple: Roger de Beaumont.
Farmhouse; manor house.
Stinsford
Stincteford / Stiteford: Hugh de St. Quintin; Brictwin from the king and Aiulf from him.
Poet laureate C. Day Lewis and novelist Thomas Hardy's heart are buried in the churchyard. The village is Mellstock of Hardy's writings.
Stoborough
Stanberge: Count of Mortain. Mill.

Stock Gaylard
Stoches: William d'Eu.
18th century Stock House, with deer park.
Stoke Abbot
Stoche: Monks of Sherborne. Mill.
Stone, thatched houses.
Stoke Wake
Stoche: Shaftesbury Abbey.
Partly Elizabethan manor house.
Stoke Wallis
Stoche: Edric, the king's thane; Ranulf from Thurstan FitzRolf.

Stour
Stur / Sture: Shaftesbury Abbey; Roger de Beaumont. 4 mills.
Now 2 villages, East and West Stour. Novelist Henry Fielding lived in East Stour manor house, now replaced by a farmhouse.
Stourpaine
Sture: Humphrey the Chamberlain; William Bellett from the king.
At the foot of Hod Hill, which is crowned with an Iron Age and Roman hill-fort.
Stourton Caundle
Candel / e / lle: Count of Mortain and Alwin from him; Hugh from William d'Eu; William d'Ecouis; Wimer from Walscin de Donai; Hugh Silvester; Godric from the king.
The manor farm chapel was part of the Stourton family's fortified house.
Stubhampton
Stibemetune: Aiulf the Chamberlain.

Studland
Stollant: Hamo from Count of Mortain. 32 salthouses.
Harbour was used by 16th century pirates.
Studley
Slitlege / Stodlege: Edric from the king.
Lost in Ryall village.
Sturminster Marshall
Sturminstre: Roger de Beaumont. 2 mills.
Scattered.
Sturminster Newton
Newentone: St. Mary's, Glastonbury; Waleran, Roger, Ketel and Gotshelm Cook from the king. 4 mills.
Small town with a working 17th century corn mill that replaced a medieval one.
Sturthill
Sterte(a): William de Daumeray from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
Lower Sturthill Farm.
Sutton Poyntz
Sutone: King's land.
Near Chalbury Iron Age hill-fort.
Sutton Waldron
Sudtone: Waleran.

Swanage
Sonwic / Sonwich / Swanwic: Walter Thunder from Countess of Boulogne; wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
Seaside resort.
Swyre
Svere: William from William d'Eu. Mill.
Stone-built.
Sydling
Sidelince: Milton Abbey; Ansger and Amund from Count of Mortain. 3 mills.
Attractive, unspoilt; working smithy. Yew trees in the vicarage garden are said to be 1000 years old.
Symondsbury
Simondesberge: Cerne Abbey.
Pretty; stone and thatch; 17th century manor house.

Tarrant Crawford
Tarente: Bishop of Lisieux.
Manor farm.
Tarrant Hinton
Tarente: Shaftesbury Abbey.
Thatched cottages.
Tarrant Keyneston
Tarente: Bishop of Lisieux. 2 mills.

Tarrant Launceston
Tarente: Holy Trinity, Caen.

Tarrant Monkton
Tarente: St. Mary's, Cranborne.
Thatched cottages; ford.
Tatton
Tatentone / Tatetun: Aiulf the Chamberlain; wife of Hugh FitzGrip.
Tatton Farm.
Thorncombe
Tornecome: Baldwin the Sheriff.
Forde Abbey, founded in 1148, is nearby.
Thorne
Torne: Walter Thunder and Robert from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip.

Thornford
Torneford: Monks of Sherborne. Mill.
Much developed.
Thorn Hill
Tornehelle: Wulfric from the king.
Possibly Thornhill House.
Thornicombe
Tornecome: Alward from the king.

Thornton
Torentone: William from William d'Eu.
Thornton Farm.
Tincleton
Tincladene: William from Earl Hugh.

Todber
Todeberie / a: Geoffrey Mallory from William de Mohun.
Part-Saxon cross in the churchyard.
Toller Fratrum
Tolre: Oger from Waleran. Mill.
Remote, mainly Tudor settlement, connected with the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. St. Basil Church has pre-Domesday carvings. Also Toller Porcorum with a church font thought to be part of a Roman altar.
Toller Whelme
Tolre: Count of Mortain.
Tudor manor house.
Tolpuddle
Pidele: Abbotsbury Abbey. 2 mills, 300 sheep.
Home of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, who formed the first trade union and were sentenced to transportation to Australia (1834).
Trent
Trente / a: Ansger from Count of Mortain.
Manor house with a hiding place for Charles II after the battle of Worcester (1651).
Trill
Trelle: Earl Hugh.
Trill Farm.
Turners Puddle
Pidele: Walter Thunder from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip. Mill. 40 goats, 12 mares with their foals.

Turnworth
Torneworde: Alfred d'Epaignes.

Tyneham
Tigeham / Tingeham: Count of Mortain; Edric from the king.
Derelict. In the danger area of army firing ranges near Lulworth.

Up Cerne
Obcerne: Bishop of Salisbury.
17th century manor house.

Waddon
Wadone: St. Mary's, Montivilliers.
Waddon Manor.
Walditch
Waldic: William de Daumeray from the king. Mill.
Traces of ancient field systems.
Walford
Walteford: Godwin Hunter from the king.
Part of Wimborne Minster.
Wareham
Warham: Bishop of Salisbury; St. Wandrilles Abbey; William d'Eu.
Town settled by Britons, Romans and Saxons and fought over by Danes and during the Civil War. It was rebuilt in Georgian style in 1762.
Warmwell
Warmemoille / Warmwelle: Robert from Count of Mortain; Earl Hugh; Thorold from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip. 2 mills, 200 sheep.
17th century manor house, home of John Sadler who predicted the Great Plague, the Fire of London and Monmouth's Rebellion.
Watercombe
Watrecome / Watrecoma: King's land. ½ mill.

Waterston
Pidere: Serlo de Burcy, formerly Earl Harold. Mill. 393 sheep.
Waterston House, home of Bathsheba Everdene in Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd.
Weathergrove
Weregrave / a: Ralph from Bishop of Coutances. Mill.
Weathergrove Farm.
Wellwood
Welle: Monks of Sherborne.

West Compton
Contone: Milton Abbey.
Remote.
West Knighton
Chenistetone: William d'Ecouis. 2 mills.

West Milton
Mideltone / a: Cerne Abbey. Mill.
Unspoilt; watermill, now a private house.
West Parley
Perlai: Ralph of Cranborne.
On the outskirts of Bournemouth.
Whitchurch Canonicorum
Witcerce: St. Wandrille's Abbey holds the church.
Norman church with relics of St. Wite, the village's patron saint.
Whitcombe
Widecome / a: Milton Abbey.
12th-16th century church where the Dorset poet, William Barnes, preached his last sermon.
Whitecliff
Witeclive / a: Serlo de Burcy.
Whitecliff Farm.
Wilkswood
Wilceswde / -a / Wilchesode / a: Wife of Hugh FitzGrip and Durand Carpenter from her. 2 oxen.
Wilkswood Farm.
Wilksworth
Wedechesworde: Aethelrun, the king's thane.
Wilksworth Farm.
Wimborne Minster
Winborne / burne: King's land. Edward of Salisbury. 377 sheep, 2 cattle, 74 goats.
Market town. Ethelred, king of the West Saxons and brother of Alfred the Great, is said to be buried here.
Wimborne St. Giles
Winburne: King's land; St. Mary's Cranborne; Wilton Abbey; William Chernet from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip; Wulfgeat from the king; Hervey the Chamberlain. 1 1/3 mills.
St. Giles House, seat of the Shaftesbury family; 17th century mill house.
Winfrith Newburgh
Winfrode / a: King's land with Bolle holding the church. 4 mills.
Overshadowed by a nuclear power station.
Winterborne Abbas
Winterborna / Wintreburne: Cerne Abbey. 18 goats.
Near the Bronze Age Nine Stones Circle.
Winterborne Belet
Wintreburne:
Lost.
Winterborne Houghton
Wintreborne / burne: Ogis from William de Mohun; Hugh from the wife of Hugh FitzGrip; Swein from the king and Robert from him. 300 sheep.
Remote.
Winterborne Monkton
Wintreburn: Countess of Boulogne.
Below the Neolithic and Iron Age hill fort of Maiden Castle.
Winterborne Stickland
Wintreburne: Canons of Coutances.

Winterborne Whitechurch
Wintreborne: Milton Abbey.
Thatched cottages.
Witchampton
Wichemetune / Wichamatuna: King's land; Hubert from Count of Mortain, formerly Queen Matilda.
Old Mill, once a 13th century manor house.
Woodsford
Wardesford / Werdesford / Werdesfort: Cerne Abbey; William from the king. Mill.
14th century Woodsford Castle.
Woodstreet
Windestorte: Osmund, the king's servant.
Woodstreet Farm.
Woodyates
Odiete: St. Mary's Glastonbury.

Wool
Welle, Wille: Count of Mortain; Alward from the king; Aelmer.
Elizabethan Woolbridge Manor, now an hotel.
Woolcombe (in Melbury Bubb)
Wellecombe: Hugh from William d'Eu.

Woolcombe (in Toller Porcorum)
Wellacome / Wilecome: Hugh Gosbert, the king's servant; Doda, the king's thane.
Woolcombe Farm.
Woolgarston
Orgarestone: Humphrey from William de Braose.

Woolland
Winlande / a: Milton Abbey. 16 goats.
Fine Victorian buildings.
Wootton FitzPaine
Odetun: Bretel from Count of Mortain; Aiulf the Chamberlain. 3 mills, vines.
Tudor-style Victorian manor house.
Worgret
Vergroh / Weregrote / Wiregrote: Cerne Abbey; Walter from William de Braose; Hugh from the king.
Part of Wareham.
Worth Matravers
Orde / Wirde / Wode: Roger Arundel. 250 sheep.
Stone-built; early Norman, part-Saxon church.
Wraxhall
Brocheshale / Brochessala: Roger Arundel. 2 cows.
Scattered; Jacobean manor house.
Wyndlam
Windelham: Roger Arundel.

Wynford Eagle
Wenfrot: William d'Eu. Mill.
Manor house, with a 17th century porch, owned by the Sydenham family for 200 years.

Yetminster
Etiminstre: Bishop of Salisbury. Mill.
Stone-built.