Pulham 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 south-west
England
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. It is situated in 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 and part of ...
, southeast of
Sherborne
Sherborne is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England. It is sited on the River Yeo (South Somerset), River Yeo, on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, east of Yeovil. The parish include ...
. In the
2011 Census the civil parish had 105 dwellings, 103 households and a population of 269.
Pulham was mentioned in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...
of 1086, and was once owned by
Cirencester Abbey
Cirencester Abbey was an abbey, dedicated to St Mary, in Cirencester, Gloucestershire. It was founded as an Augustinian monastery in 1117 on the site of an earlier church, the oldest-known Saxon church in England, which had itself been built on th ...
, a connection remembered in the name of Cannings Court Farm (the "Court of the Canons").
[''North Dorset Official District Guide'', North Dorset District Council, Home Publishing Co. Ltd, circa 1983, page 45] Priests from nearby
Milton Abbey
Milton Abbey School is a private school for day and boarding pupils in the village of Milton Abbas, near Blandford Forum in Dorset, in South West England. It has 224 pupils , in five houses: Athelstan, Damer, Hambro, Hodgkinson and Tregonwell. T ...
also used to visit the village church; they resided above the porch in a priests' room, accessed via a staircase within the wall.
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Notable people
George Saxby Penfold
George Saxby Penfold (176913 October 1846) was a Church of England clergyman, Rector of several parishes and active as a visiting preacher. In 1825 the University of Oxford awarded him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. A pluralist, for much of h ...
was Rector of Pulham from 1797 to 1832, but after 1815 held other livings as well."Penfold, George Saxby"
theclergydatabase.org.uk, accessed 21 November 2020
See also
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HMS Pulham
HMS ''Pulham'' was one of 93 ships of the of inshore minesweepers
A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep ...
, a
Ham class minesweeper
The Ham class was a class of inshore minesweepers (IMS), known as the Type 1, of the British Royal Navy. The class was designed to operate in the shallow water of rivers and estuaries. All of the ships in the class are named for British place na ...
References
External links
Villages in Dorset
Civil parishes in Dorset
North Dorset District
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