Place:Sturminster Marshall, Dorset, England

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NameSturminster Marshall
Alt namesSturminster-Marshallsource: Family History Library Catalog
Sturminstresource: Domesday Book (1985) p 96
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.783°N 2.067°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoCogdean Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Sturminster Marshall is a village and civil parish in east Dorset in England, situated on the River Stour between Blandford Forum and Poole. The parish had a population of 1,895 at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,969 at the 2011 Census and includes the village of Almer west of Sturminster Marshall, near Winterborne Zelston and the hamlet of Henbury to the south-east of the village. The village is twinned with the French commune of Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy. The appropriate electoral ward is called 'Stour'. From Sturminster Marshall the ward goes east to Pamphill, with a total population of 2,582.

King Alfred the Great, in his will of 899, a copy of which can be seen at the British Library, left the village to his youngest son Æthelweard (c.880-922).

Sturminster Marshall has a 13th century church, St. Mary's. Its predecessor contributed to the village's name; 'Sturminster' meaning "church on the River Stour". The second part of the name came from William Marshall. Until 1857, St. Hubert's Church in Corfe Mullen acted as a chapel of ease to Sturminster Marshall.

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