{{Short description|Village and civil parish in Dorset, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox UK place |country = England |static_image_name = england_dorset_pursecaundle.JPG |static_image_caption = Purse Caundle manor house |official_name = Purse Caundle |coordinates = {{Coord|50.9567|-2.4342|display=inline,title}} |map_type = Dorset |population = 90 |population_ref = <ref name=dfy>{{cite web|url=https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882|title=Parish Population Data|publisher=[[Dorset County Council]]|date=20 January 2015|accessdate=7 March 2015}}</ref> | unitary_england= [[Dorset (district)|Dorset]] | lieutenancy_england= [[Dorset]] |post_town = Sherborne |postcode_area = DT |postcode_district = DT9 |constituency_westminster = [[West Dorset (UK Parliament constituency)|West Dorset]] |region = South West England |os_grid_reference = ST695175 }}
'''Purse Caundle''' is a village and [[Civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in the [[English county|county]] of [[Dorset]] in southwest [[England]]. It lies within the [[Dorset (unitary authority)|Dorset Council]] administrative area, about {{convert|4|mi|km}} east of [[Sherborne]]. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 90.<ref name=dfy/>
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.<ref>{{cite book|title=West Dorset, Holiday and Tourist Guide|date=c. 1983|publisher=[[West Dorset District Council]]|page=17}}</ref> The manor's site was recorded as early as the [[Domesday Book]] in 1086, when it was a tenancy of [[Athelney Abbey]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2011/03/purse-caundle/|title=Purse Caundle|author=Rodney Legg|publisher=Dorset Life Magazine|date=March 2011|accessdate=26 March 2014}}</ref>
The village church provides the final resting place for the seventeenth-century physician [[Nathaniel Highmore (surgeon)|Nathaniel Highmore]], whose father was rector here.<ref>{{cite book|title=Highways and Byways in Dorset|author=Sir Frederick Treves|author-link=Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet|publisher=Macmillan and Co. Ltd|year=1906|page=320}}</ref>
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