{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Dorset, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2022}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place | official_name = Poyntington | local_name = | unitary_england = [[Dorset (unitary authority)|Dorset]] | lieutenancy_england = [[Dorset]] | country = England | region = South West England | static_image_name = Poyntington manor house.jpg | static_image_caption = Poyntington Manor | population = 128 | population_ref = <ref name=ons>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127685&c=Poyntington&d=16&e=62&g=6418551&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1394871899162&enc=1|publisher=[[Office for National Statistics]]|title=Area: Poyntington (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics|accessdate=15 March 2014|work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref> | os_grid_reference = ST650200 | map_type = Dorset | coordinates = {{coord|50.978|-2.4991|display=inline,title}} | london_distance = | post_town = Sherborne | postcode_area = DT | postcode_district = DT9 | civil_parish = Yeo Head | dial_code = 01963 | constituency_westminster = [[West Dorset (constituency)|West Dorset]] }} '''Poyntington''' is a village and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[English county|county]] of [[Dorset]] in [[South West England]]. It lies on the edge of the [[Blackmore Vale]] about {{convert|2|mi|km}} north of [[Sherborne]]. In the [[2011 United Kingdom census|2011 census]] the parish had a population of 128.<ref name=ons/>
Poyntington shares a [[Parish councils in England|grouped parish council]], Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of [[Castleton, Dorset|Castleton]], [[Goathill]] and [[Oborne]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yeoheadpc.co.uk/ |title=Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council|accessdate=3 February 2015}}</ref> Until 1896 the village was in [[Somerset]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sanhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/10-J-W-Hart.pdf|title=The Changing Boundaries of Somerset|last=Hart|first=J.W.|publisher=Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society|date=2020|page=167|accessdate=12 February 2025}}</ref> part of the [[Hundred (county subdivision)|hundred]] of [[Horethorne (hundred)|Horethorne]].<ref name=genuki>{{cite web|title=Somerset Hundreds|url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/|publisher=GENUKI|accessdate=23 April 2013}}</ref>
All Saints' Church has grown from an Anglo-Saxon two-room design and contains original Norman work. Murals on pillars were discovered in 1848<ref>[http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Poyntington/index.html Poyntington], Genuki, accessed July 2009</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/poyntington.htm Poyntington Church] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807161045/http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/poyntington.htm |date=7 August 2008 }}, Dorset Historic Churches Trust, accessed July 2009</ref>
==Notable residents== *[[Thomas Malet|Sir Thomas Malet]], Judge *[[William Launcelot Scott Fleming]] *Sir [[Ralph Cheyne]] (d.1400)
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==External links== {{Commons category-inline|Poyntington}} {{Dorset}}
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[[Category:Villages in Dorset]] [[Category:Places formerly in Somerset]] [[Category:Civil parishes in Dorset]]