Tarrant Gunville
Encyclopedia
Tarrant Gunville is a village in north Dorset
, England
, situated at the head of the Tarrant Valley on Cranborne Chase
five miles north east of Blandford Forum. The village has a population
of 236 . The large parish church is dedicated to St. Mary, and was completely rebuilt between 1845 and 1845 by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt
.
The parish has three round barrows and an unexcavated iron age enclosure with a 15' deep ditch, which Pevsner
suspects was built in a hurry.
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 at the head of the Tarrant Valley on Cranborne Chase
Cranborne Chase
Cranborne Chase is a Chalk plateau in central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. The plateau is part of the English Chalk Formation and is adjacent to Salisbury Plain and the West Wiltshire Downs in the north, the Dorset Downs to the south west and the...
five miles north east of Blandford Forum. 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 236 . The large parish church is dedicated to St. Mary, and was completely rebuilt between 1845 and 1845 by the architect Thomas Henry Wyatt
Thomas Henry Wyatt
Thomas Henry Wyatt was an Irish British architect. He had a prolific and distinguished career, being elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects 1870-73 and awarded their Royal Gold Medal for Architecture in 1873...
.
The parish has three round barrows and an unexcavated iron age enclosure with a 15' deep ditch, which Pevsner
Pevsner
Pevsner is a surname, and may refer to:* Antoine Pevsner , a Russian sculptor* Sir Nikolaus Pevsner , a German-born British scholar of the history of architecture;** ....
suspects was built in a hurry.
Reference
- The Buildings of England by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner. Page 416. Published by Penguin Books 1972. Reprint 1975. ISBN 0 14 071044 2