Poyntington is a village and

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in the

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Dorset Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...

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. It lies on the edge of the

Blackmore Vale The Blackmore Vale (; less commonly spelt ''Blackmoor'') is a vale, or wide valley, in north Dorset, and to a lesser extent south Somerset and southwest Wiltshire in southern England. Geography The vale is part of the Stour valley, part of t ...

about north of

Sherborne Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish includes the hamlets of Nether Coombe and Lower Clatcombe. T ...

. In the 2011 census the parish had a

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of 128. Poyntington shares a grouped parish council, Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of Castleton,

Goathill Goathill is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in England, situated in northern Dorset, a couple of miles east of the town of Sherborne. It lies very close to the county boundary however, and for much of its history (until 1896) ...

and

Oborne Oborne is a village and civil parish in north west Dorset, England, situated just north of the A30 road approximately northeast of Sherborne, and is close to the border with Somerset. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 101. Obo ...

. Historically the village was part of the

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of Horethorne in neighbouring

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. All Saints' Church has grown from an Anglo-Saxon two-room design and contains original Norman work. Murals on pillars were discovered in 1848 but were destroyed by their exposure. Two stained-glass windows date from the fourteenth century. An unusual addition is a carving of an angel's wing which was blown off

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in World War I and then donated to the church.Poyntington Church
, Dorset Historic Churches Trust, accessed July 2009

Notable residents

* Sir Thomas Malet, Judge *

William Launcelot Scott Fleming William Launcelot Scott Fleming (7 August 1906 – 30 July 1990) was a British Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Portsmouth and later the Bishop of Norwich. He was also noted as a geologist and explorer. Childhood Fleming was born in Edi ...

*Sir

Ralph Cheyne Sir Ralph Cheyne (c. 1337 – 1400) (''alias'' Cheney), of Brooke, in the parish of Westbury in Wiltshire, was three times a Member of Parliament for Wiltshire and was Deputy Justiciar of Ireland in 1373 and Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1383� ...

(d.1400)

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