Nether Compton

Coordinates: 50°57′15″N 2°34′27″W / 50.9542°N 2.5742°W / 50.9542; -2.5742
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Nether Compton
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSherborne
Postcode districtDT9
PoliceDorset
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
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UK
England
Dorset
50°57′15″N 2°34′27″W / 50.9542°N 2.5742°W / 50.9542; -2.5742

Nether Compton is a village and

2011 census the parish had a population of 328.[1]

History

Nether Compton was burnt in 1066 by William, Duke of Normandy.[citation needed]

The parish church of

Perpendicular and the pulpit early 17th century.[3] The west tower houses five bells: one from the 15th century (Salisbury foundry, inscribed "Sit Semper Sine Ve Qui Michi Dicit Ave"), one dated 1585, two dated 1658 (Thomas Purdue, Closworth) and one from 1886 (Gillett and Co., Croydon).[4]

Many of the buildings in the village date from when it was improved in the last decades of the 19th century[citation needed], Colonel John R. P. Goodden having inherited Compton House in 1883. Architect Evelyn Hellicar (1862–1929) is responsible for a number of the buildings.[5] These include Sheriff's Lodge (1889). The Grade II listed former village school, built c. 1843, is now a private home.

The village was rated as among the "20 most beautiful villages in the UK and Ireland" by Condé Nast Traveler in 2020.[6]

Notable residents

Nether Compton was the childhood home of

BAFTA Award winning actress Kristin Scott Thomas and of her younger sister, Serena Scott Thomas
, also an actress, who was born in the village.

Harald Penrose (1904-1996), British test pilot and aviation author, lived in Nether Compton for more than fifty years in a house of his own design.[7]

Over Compton was the childhood home of Silicon Valley entrepreneur and award-winning designer Joseph Oliver (formerly Poynter, foster child of Peter and Catherine McQueen).

Notes

  1. ^ a b "Area: Nether Compton (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  2. ^ Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Vol. 1, West Dorset, London: HMSO, 1952, pp. 100-101.
  3. ISBN 0-300-09598-8
  4. ^ Christopher Dalton, Bells and Belfries of Dorset, Ullingswick: Upper Court Press, 2000-2005, vol. 2, pp. 491-494. See also the relevant page of the online Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers
  5. ^ Hellicar obituary, RIBA Journal, 21 September 1929, p. 772
  6. ^ "THE 20 MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES IN THE UK AND IRELAND, 20 October 2020". Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  7. ^ Philip Jarrett, "Obituary: Harald Penrose", The Independent, 11 September 1996

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