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| Buckland Newton which lies among meadows
in the North of Dorset is sometimes referred to as Buckland Abbas and is
a rural parish and an extensive village and was also a settlement
for both the Saxons and the Romans and the village became known as
Newton and Brockland which means 'The new town and land held under charter' The church was built in the 13th century and there is a rather rude carving of a saint above its doorway which is thought to be St Thomas and it was found in the vicarage garden and may have been a part of a private church that had been there for over a thousand years. There is a small room with a fireplace above the porch that was used by the Glastonbury monks who preached here and it can be reached by a staircase inside.
There is a memorial tablet to the Dorset poet William Barns who was one of Shakespeare's ancestors and came from a humble farming family. Barns wrote the poetry in the Dorset dialect and made the Vale of Blackmore famous, and Buckland Newton was selected by the BBC as a typical Dorset village in 1937. The villages is about 9 miles to the south east of Sherborne and 10 miles north of Dorchester and was once in the division and union of Cerne. And it is bordered by the parishes of Pulham, Mappowder, Alton Pancras, Cerne Abbas, Minterne Magna and Glanvilles Wooton. Now detached from Buckland Newton is the Chapelry of Plush, which is a tithing and chapelry three miles south east with a small church dedicated to St John the Baptist. Part of this text is from the Dorset OPC website
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