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| In 975AD Womburnan was the name for
Oborne but in the Domesday Survey of 1986 it was recorded as Wocburne
and then in 1212 changed to Woburn and in a document dated 1479 it was
caled Obourne, the name came from the Old English 'woh' and 'burna'
which means a place 'at the crocked or winding stream' as 'burna' meant
stream, in this case it was the River Yeo. It is only a small village of thatched cottages that lie alongside a winding stream beside the road, and the White Post Toll house is one of the few non thatched buildings, it was built on the new Turnpike, The church was built in 1862 and has an elaborate chancel arch. The chancel of the original church that stood here in 1533 still can be seen at the southern end of the village and is now cared for by the Redundant Churches Fund, and it was here that Robert Goadby who was the publisher of the Sherborne Mercury in 1778 was buried. There was a skirmish here in April 1645 during the English Civil war and it is said it led to the death of Morice Lee who was an Irish soldier,
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