Maiden Newton

Maiden Newton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in south-west England. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district, about 9mi north-west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited on Upper Greensand at the confluence of the River Frome with its tributary of equivalent size, the Hooke. Both these rivers have cut valleys into the surrounding chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. Maiden Newton railway station, which serves the village, is situated on the Heart of Wessex Line. The A356 main road also passes through the village. In the 2011 census the parish—which does not include the adjacent settlements of Frome Vauchurch and Tollerford— had a population of 1, 119. In 1086 in the Domesday Book Maiden Newton was recorded as Newetone; it had 26 households, 7 ploughlands, 18acre of meadow and 2 mills. It was in Tollerford Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.

Maiden Newton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in south-west England. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district, about 9mi north-west of the county town Dorchester. It is sited on Upper Greensand at the confluence of the River Frome with its tributary of equivalent size, the Hooke. Both these rivers have cut valleys into the surrounding chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. Maiden Newton railway station, which serves the village, is situated on the Heart of Wessex Line. The A356 main road also passes through the village. In the 2011 census the parish—which does not include the adjacent settlements of Frome Vauchurch and Tollerford— had a population of 1, 119. In 1086 in the Domesday Book Maiden Newton was recorded as Newetone; it had 26 households, 7 ploughlands, 18acre of meadow and 2 mills. It was in Tollerford Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.