Owermoigne ( ) is a village and
civil parish in the
county of
Dorset in southern
England, situated south-east of
Dorchester. In the
2011 census the parish had a population of 467.
[ The parish is within an ]electoral ward
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes. In some countries, wards are usually named after neighbourhoods, thoroughfares, parishes, landmarks, geographical features and in some cases historical figures connected to t ...
with the same name, which stretches from the east side of the small coastal village of Ringstead north towards Owermoigne and then up to, but not including, Crossways. To the east it covers White Nothe, Holworth and Galton. The population of this ward at the 2011 census was 3,804.
The parish was formerly part of the hundred of Winfrith, and subsequently constituted a liberty by itself.
Owermoigne village is described as Nether Moynton in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...
's novelsWessex Tales
''Wessex Tales'' is an 1888 collection of tales written by English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy, many of which are set before Hardy's birth in 1840.
In the various short stories, Hardy writes of the true nature of nineteenth-century marria ...
takes place in the village.
At Holworth is a small wooden church dedicated to St Catherine-by-the-Sea above Burning Cliff
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Burning Cliff is a cliff under the White Nothe headland at the eastern end of Ringstead Bay, in Dorset, England. The area is well known for its geology and fossils.
The cliff is to the northwest of White Nothe. From 1826, the cliff sm ...
.
References
External links
Owermoigne local history
Villages in Dorset
Liberties of Dorset
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