Horton, Dorset

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50°52′01″N1°57′25″W / 50.867°N 1.957°W / 50.867; -1.957 Coordinates: 50°52′01″N1°57′25″W / 50.867°N 1.957°W / 50.867; -1.957

Horton is a village in East Dorset, England, situated on the boundary between the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Heaths, and ten miles north of Poole. The village has a population of 515 (2001).

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The name Horton is a common one in England. It derives from Old English horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'. The earliest reference to the one in Dorset is in a charter of 946 ACE, albeit surviving only in a fourteenth-century copy, which mentions 'oþ hore tuninge gemære' ('to the boundary of the people of Horton'). [1]

The village has two unusual buildings: the Horton Tower, a five storey gothic red brick observatory designed by Humphrey Sturt whose principal purpose now is that of a disguised mobile phone mast for operator Vodafone, and the 18th century Georgian church of St Wolfrida, built on the site of the tenth century Horton Priory. Wolfrida was the mother of Saint Edith of Wilton. [2]

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The Horton Tower, built in 1726

Horton is claimed as the location where James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, was captured after the failed Monmouth Rebellion. Monmouth hid in a ditch under an ash tree disguised as a shepherd but was betrayed by a local woman who, according to legend, later killed herself in remorse.

The village once had a manor house but this was superseded by Crichel House, a nearby stately home, and the manor house decayed and was pulled down. The stables, now converted into the rectory, and a large ornamental lake, remain. [3]

Horton church is the burial place of Sir George Hastings. [4]

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References

  1. Victor Watts (ed.), The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. HORTON.
  2. William Page, Victoria County History, The Priory of Horton, 1908
  3. Cullingford A History Of Dorset 1980 Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd
  4. "HASTINGS, Sir George (c.1588-1651), of the Prior's House, Christchurch, Hants and Puddletown, Dorset". Crown / The History of Parliament Trust. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

5.http://www.bbc.co.uk/dorset/content/articles/2009/01/28/folly_horton_tower_feature.shtml

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