Place:Fifehead Neville, Dorset, England

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NameFifehead Neville
Alt namesFifehead-Nevillesource: Family History Library Catalog
Fifhidesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 94
Fifehead St. Quintinsource: detached part of parish
Fifehead St. Quentinsource: another spelling of the above
Lower Fifeheadsource: another name for the above
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.883°N 2.333°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoPimperne Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which the parish was first located
Cranborne Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was later located
Belchalwell, Dorset, Englandformer parish in which Fifehead St. Quentin was geographically situated
Sturminster Rural, Dorset, Englandrural district 1894-1974
North Dorset District, Dorset, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2019
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Fifehead Neville is a civil parish and a village in Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale about 2 miles (3 kilometres) southwest of the town of Sturminster Newton in the North Dorset District. In the UK census of 2011 the population of the parish was 147.

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History

The Domesday Book records that in 1086 the estate of Fifehead Neville had eight households and was part of Pimperne Hundred. The tenant-in-chief of the estate was Waleran the Hunter whose tenant was Ingelrann. The overlordship descended to Walter Walerand (d. 1200–1) and to his daughter and co-heiress Isabel de Waleran who married William de Nevill. The overlordship was inherited by Isabel de Nevill's daughter Joan de Nevill (d. 1263), wife of Jordan de St. Martin.

Crossing the Divelish is an old packhorse bridge that has two pointed arches and is probably medieval.

Before 1920 the parish was in two parts, each with its own settlement—Fifehead Neville in the north and Lower Fifehead or Fifehead St. Quentin in the south. It is probable each settlement had previously had its own open field system. Fifehead St. Quentin (sometimes Fifehead St. Quintin) was previously a detached part of Belchalwell, a former parish that is now part of the parish of Okeford Fitzpaine.

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