Owermoigne ( ) is a village and
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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in the
county
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of
Dorset
Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...
in southern
England
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, 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 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
White Nothe (meaning "White Nose") is a chalk downland, chalk headland on the English Channel coast at the eastern end of Ringstead Bay, east of Weymouth, Dorset, Weymouth in Dorset, England. The area is well known for its geology and fossils. ...
, 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
Liberty is the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views. The concept of liberty can vary depending on perspective and context. In the Constitutional ...
by itself.
Owermoigne village is described as Nether Moynton in the fictional Wessex
The Kingdom of the West Saxons, also known as the Kingdom of Wessex, was an Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy, kingdom in the south of Great Britain, from around 519 until Alfred the Great declared himself as King of the Anglo-Saxons in 886.
The Anglo-Sa ...
of Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Literary realism, Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry ...
'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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