Purse Caundle

Purse Caundle
Purse Caundle manor house
Purse Caundle
Purse Caundle shown within Dorset
Population	90
OS grid reference	ST695175
District	West Dorset
Shire county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
List of places UK England Dorset 50°57′24″N 2°26′03″W / 50.9567°N 2.4342°W / 50.9567; -2.4342Coordinates: 50°57′24″N 2°26′03″W / 50.9567°N 2.4342°W / 50.9567; -2.4342

Purse Caundle is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district, about 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Sherborne. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 90.

Purse Caundle manor house was built in the 15th century under the instruction of Richard Long, who bought 575 acres of land here in 1428. The manor's site was recorded as early as the Domesday Book in 1086, when it was a tenancy of Athelney Abbey.

The village church provides the final resting place for the seventeenth-century physician Nathaniel Highmore, whose father was rector here.

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