Mappowder
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Mappowder is a village in north Dorset
, England
, situated in the Blackmore Vale
nine miles south east of Sherborne
. The village has a population
of 137 . The name of the village comes from mapuldor, Old English for 'maple tree'. There is believed to have been a settlement at Mappowder since at least 1086.
The Church, dedicated to St Peter & St Paul, is Perpendicular and was built in the late 15th and 16th centuries. However, it includes features remaining from an earlier 12th century church. The chancel was expanded in 1868 by the Wingfield Digby family of Sherborne Castle, who owned the village in victorian times.
Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, situated in the Blackmore Vale
Blackmore Vale
The Blackmore Vale is a vale, or wide valley, in north Dorset, and to a lesser extent south Somerset and southwest Wiltshire in southern England. The vale is part of the Stour valley...
nine miles south east of Sherborne
Sherborne
Sherborne is a market town in northwest Dorset, England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The A30 road, which connects London to Penzance, runs through the town. The population of the town is 9,350 . 27.1% of the population is aged 65 or...
. The village has a population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
of 137 . The name of the village comes from mapuldor, Old English for 'maple tree'. There is believed to have been a settlement at Mappowder since at least 1086.
The Church, dedicated to St Peter & St Paul, is Perpendicular and was built in the late 15th and 16th centuries. However, it includes features remaining from an earlier 12th century church. The chancel was expanded in 1868 by the Wingfield Digby family of Sherborne Castle, who owned the village in victorian times.