Chaldon Herring
Chaldon Herring | ||
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Shire county | ||
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Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | Dorchester | |
Postcode district | DT2 | |
Police | Dorset | |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire | |
Ambulance | South Western | |
UK Parliament | ||
Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon is a village and
In 1086 in the Domesday Book, Chaldon Herring was recorded as Calvedone and, together with West Chaldon, appears in three entries.[2][3]
The Herring family were landowners for a long period (as early as 1166 until at least 1372),[4] so the village and parish appended their family name to the placename. Elizabeth Herring, daughter of John Herring of Chaldon Herring, was the great grandmother of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford; the Herringham arms are displayed in the second grand quarter of Bedford's coat of arms.
Chaldon Herring is notable for being the home of Llewelyn Powys and his wife, Alyse Gregory. In 1925 the couple moved to Dorset: firstly to the Coastguard Cottages on White Nothe and then to the nearby farmhouse Chydyok, where his two sisters, the poet and novelist, Philippa Powys, and the artist, Gertrude Powys, occupied the adjacent cottage. Various other writers and artists lived in the village at different times. These include the sisters Elizabeth Muntz, a sculptor and author, and Hope Muntz, a historian, who wrote The Golden Warrior; novelists Sylvia Townsend Warner and David Garnett; the poets Valentine Ackland and Gamel Woolsey; and the sculptor Stephen Tomlin.
The novelist
Just north of the village are four prehistoric bowl barrows. The Five Marys, a group of round barrows, are on a ridge farther north with two more bowl barrows. These are all scheduled monuments.
The parish church is St. Nicholas. There is a restaurant-pub, The Sailor's Return, and B. & B. accommodation. The newest shop is in Winfrith Newburgh, a mile away. The village has 18 listed buildings, all at Grade II.
References
- ^ "Area: Chaldon Herring (Parish)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ^ "Dorset A-G". The Domesday Book Online. domesdaybook.co.uk. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ "Place: Chaldon [Herring] and [West] Chaldon". Open Domesday. domesdaymap.co.uk. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ The Herring Family of Chaldon Herring, Winterborne Herringston, Langton Herring and Winterborne Clenston, Dorset, accessed June 2018.
- ^ Richard Perceval Graves,The Brothers Powys (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), pp. 57, 305.
- ^ Blamires, H. A Guide to twentieth century literature in English. (London: Taylor & Francis, 1983), p.225.
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