# Poyntington

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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England

Human settlement in England

Poyntington Poyntington Manor Poyntington Location within Dorset Population 128 [1] OS grid reference ST650200 Civil parish Yeo Head Unitary authority Dorset Ceremonial county Dorset Region South West Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Post town Sherborne Postcode district DT9 Dialling code 01963 Police Dorset Fire Dorset and Wiltshire Ambulance South Western UK Parliament West Dorset List of places UK England Dorset 50°58′41″N 2°29′57″W / 50.978°N 2.4991°W / 50.978; -2.4991

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

Poyntington shares a [grouped parish council](/source/Parish_councils_in_England), Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of [Castleton](/source/Castleton%2C_Dorset), [Goathill](/source/Goathill) and [Oborne](/source/Oborne).[2] Until 1896 the village was in [Somerset](/source/Somerset),[3] part of the [hundred](/source/Hundred_(county_subdivision)) of [Horethorne](/source/Horethorne_(hundred)).[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](/source/Amiens_Cathedral) in World War I and then donated to the church.[6]

## Notable residents

- [Sir Thomas Malet](/source/Thomas_Malet), Judge

- [William Launcelot Scott Fleming](/source/William_Launcelot_Scott_Fleming)

- Sir [Ralph Cheyne](/source/Ralph_Cheyne) (d.1400)

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-ons_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-ons_1-1) ["Area: Poyntington (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics"](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). *Neighbourhood Statistics*. [Office for National Statistics](/source/Office_for_National_Statistics). Retrieved 15 March 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council"](http://www.yeoheadpc.co.uk/). Retrieved 3 February 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Hart, J.W. (2020). ["The Changing Boundaries of Somerset"](https://sanhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/10-J-W-Hart.pdf) (PDF). Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society. p. 167. Retrieved 12 February 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-genuki_4-0)** ["Somerset Hundreds"](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Miscellaneous/). GENUKI. Retrieved 23 April 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [Poyntington](http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/SOM/Poyntington/index.html), Genuki, accessed July 2009

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [Poyntington Church](http://www.dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/poyntington.htm) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080807161045/http://dorsethistoricchurchestrust.co.uk/poyntington.htm) 7 August 2008 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine), Dorset Historic Churches Trust, accessed July 2009

## External links

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