Grimstone is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

at the confluence of

Sydling Water The Sydling Water is an long river in Dorset, England, which flows from north to south from Up Sydling until it joins the River Frome near Grimstone. The source of the river is a spring at Up Sydling. It passes the deserted mediaeval vill ...

and the River Frome in the western part of the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Stratton, Dorset Stratton is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Frome valley about north-west of Dorchester. The parish includes the hamlets of Grimstone, Ash Hill and Wrackleford which, like the village, lie on or near the A37 ...

. The

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

opened Grimstone and Frampton railway station and

Grimstone Viaduct The Grimstone Viaduct is a railway bridge on the Castle Cary- Weymouth "Heart of Wessex" line in Dorset, England. It is directly north of the site of Grimstone and Frampton railway station, in the hamlet of Grimstone at the western edge of th ...

in 1857 and

British Rail British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

ways closed the station in 1966. The hamlet is the home of Manor Foods, a catering company located at Manor Farm. Grimstone's

common land Common land is land owned by a person or collectively by a number of persons, over which other persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect Wood fuel, wood, or to cut turf for fuel. A person ...

s were not enclosed until 1907.

Gallery

Image:GrimstoneMill.JPG, Former water mill File:Muckleford Nature Reserve - geograph.org.uk - 154642.jpg, Muckleford Nature Reserve

References

Hamlets in Dorset West Dorset District {{Dorset-geo-stub