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Village and civil parish in Dorset, England

Owermoigne

Owermoigne

Key facts

population508
instance ofvillage, civil parish
countryUnited Kingdom
located in the administrative territorial entityDorset
All data from the card 13
Population
467
OS grid reference
SY768853
Unitary authority
Dorset
Ceremonial county
Dorset
Region
South West
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
Dorchester
Postcode district
DT2
Police
Dorset
Fire
Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance
South Western
UK Parliament
South Dorset

Owermoigne ( OH-ər-MOYN) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 467. The parish is within an electoral ward 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, 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 by itself.

Owermoigne village is described as Nether Moynton in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels and his short story The Distracted Preacher in Wessex Tales 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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