Shroton

Iwerne Courtney Shroton
Iwerne Courtney
Iwerne Courtney
Iwerne Courtney shown within Dorset
Population	410
OS grid reference	ST859125
Civil parish	Iwerne Courtney or Shroton
District	North Dorset
Shire county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Blandford Forum
Postcode district	DT11
Dialling code	01258

Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western

EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	North Dorset
List of places UK England Dorset 50°54′50″N 2°12′04″W / 50.9138°N 2.2011°W / 50.9138; -2.2011Coordinates: 50°54′50″N 2°12′04″W / 50.9138°N 2.2011°W / 50.9138; -2.2011

Iwerne Courtney, also known as Shroton, is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the North Dorset administrative district, approximately 4 miles (6 km) north-west of the town of Blandford Forum. It is sited by the small River Iwerne between Hambledon Hill to the south-west and the hills of Cranborne Chase to the east. In 2001 the parish had 187 households and a population of 400. In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 410.

The names Iwerne Courtney and Shroton both have long histories. Iwerne ( /ˈjuːɜːrn/) is a Celtic rivername that perhaps refers to a goddess or may mean "yew-river". The village was recorded as Ywern in 877 AD, and in 1086 in the Domesday Book it was Werne. The addition of Courtney is a result of land by the Iwerne stream being owned in the 13th century by the Courtenay family, the Earls of Devon.

The name Shroton derives from the Old English scīr-rēfa and tūn, meaning "sheriff's estate" or "sheriff's town", and its use is due to the lord and tenant-in-chief at the time of Domesday being Baldwin of Exeter, the sheriff of Devon. In 1403 the name was recorded as Shyrevton.

The name Shroton is preferred locally; in his 1980 book Dorset Villages, Roland Gant stated that "I have heard only visitors to Dorset call it Iwerne Courtney".

At the time of the Domesday Book, Iwerne Courtney had 17 households and was in the hundred of Gillingham. It had 2 mills, 30 acres (12 ha) of meadow, 8 ploughlands, and its value to the lord of the manor was £10.

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