Poyntington
Poyntington is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale about 2 miles north of Sherborne.Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 132 residents
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Poyntington, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include The Manor House and Parish Church of St Cuthbert.
Milborne Wick Mission Church
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milborne Wick Mission Church is a Church of England church in Milborne Wick, Somerset, England. The church was built in 1891 and is a Grade II listed building. It now holds two services a month and has accommodation for 30 people.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corton Denham and Castleton.
Corton Denham
Village
Photo: Martin Bodman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Corton Denham is a village and parish in Somerset, England, situated seven miles north east of Yeovil. The village has a population of 189. Corton Denham is situated 2 miles northwest of Poyntington.
Castleton
Village
Photo: John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Castleton is a civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The parish virtually encircles the town of Sherborne, and contains within its boundary both Sherborne Castle and Sherborne Old Castle. Castleton is situated 2 miles south of Poyntington.
Sherborne
Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sherborne is a small town in England. A market town and civil parish in northwest Dorset, it's sited on the River Yeo on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.
Poyntington
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Poyntington, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.9798° or 50° 58′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.4996° or 2° 29′ 59″ westPopulation
132Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)Open location code
9C2VXGH2+W5OpenStreetMap ID
node 435166275OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2640181Wikidata ID
Q2228071
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Poyntington” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Пойнтингтон”
- Cebuano: “Poyntington”
- Chinese: “Poyntington”
- Dutch: “Poyntington”
- French: “Poyntington”
- Irish: “Poyntington”
- Italian: “Poyntington”
- Ladin: “Poyntington”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Poyntington”
- Persian: “پوینتینگتون”
- Polish: “Poyntington”
- Swedish: “Poyntington”
- Turkish: “Poyntington”
- Welsh: “Poyntington”
- “Poyntington”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include All Saints Church and Seven Sisters Wells, (Source of River Yeo) Oolitic Springs.
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