Owermoigne

Human settlement in England

Dorset

Dorset

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50°40′01″N 2°19′44″W / 50.6669°N 2.3289°W / 50.6669; -2.3289

Owermoigne (/ˌoʊ.ərˈmɔɪn/ OH-ər-MOYN) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 467.^[1] The parish is within an electoral ward with the same name, which stretches from the east side of the small coastal village of Ringstead north towards Owermoigne and then up to, but not including, Crossways. To the east it covers White Nothe, Holworth and Galton. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 3,804.^[2]

The parish was formerly part of the hundred of Winfrith, and subsequently constituted a liberty by itself.

Owermoigne village is described as Nether Moynton in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels^[3] and his short story The Distracted Preacher in Wessex Tales takes place in the village.

At Holworth is a small wooden church dedicated to St Catherine-by-the-Sea above Burning Cliff.

References

^ ^a ^b "Neighbourhood Statistics. Area: Owermoigne (Parish). Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 27 November 2013.
^ "Ward population 2011". ukcensusdata.com. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
^ Hammond, Reginald J. W. (1979). Dorset Coast (4th ed.). Ward Lock Ltd. p. 83. ISBN 0 7063 5494 X.

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Owermoigne local history

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See also: List of civil parishes in Dorset

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