Woodsford
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 Woodsford Castle |
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 Woodsford
Woodsford shown within Dorset |
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| Population | 80 (2013 estimate) |
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| OS grid reference | SY762905 |
| Civil parish | Woodsford |
| District | West Dorset |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | DT2 |
| Dialling code | 01305 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | South Dorset |
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Woodsford is a village and civil parish beside the River Frome, Dorset, England, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 80.
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Manor
The Domesday Book of 1086 records the manor as Waredesford,[1] which the 18th-century historian John Hutchins interpreted as meaning a ford across the Varia, an alternative name for the River Frome. More recent opinion is that Waredesford referred to a ford belonging to a man named Weard.[2] Two holdings were recorded, which have been interpreted as corresponding to East Woodsford (the current village) and West Woodsford (now Woodsford Castle).[3]
Woodsford Castle is the surviving range of a 14th-century fortified manor house. King Edward III granted William de Whitefield a licence to crenellate in 1335. The house has the largest thatched roof in the county[4] and has been restored by the Landmark Trust.[5] The house is a Grade I listed building[6]
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of St John the Baptist was 13th-century, but was largely rebuilt in 1862–63 to designs by the Gothic Revival architect Thomas Henry Wyatt. Remnants of the 13th-century church include the lower part of the west tower and an Early English Gothic lancet on the south side of the nave west of the south porch.[7] The parish is part of the Benefice of Moreton, Woodsford and Crossways with Tincleton.[8]
Economic history
In the Frome Valley at Woodsford there used to be a system of watermeadows.[9]
Demography
Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 80.[10] The 2001 Census recorded the parish's population as 67.[11] In the 2011 census figures for Woodsford parish have been combined with those of neighbouring Tincleton parish; the population in this combined area was 236.[12]
References
- ↑ Open Domesday: Woodford
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- ↑ RCHME 1970, pp. 397–402.
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