Poxwell, Dorset - from snow covered track - local postcard c.1980s

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• Picture / Image:  Poxwell from snow covered track, Dorset
• Publisher:  Dorset Federation of Women's Institutes
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Poxwell (pronounced /'po?ksw?l/, and sometimes seen written Pokeswell), is a hamlet and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England. It is located within the West Dorset administrative district, about 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Weymouth. The current population of the parish is around 50. The name originates from the ‘Pokes well’ – a well dating from the period when occupied by the Romans in the 1st century which is located on a hillside in the village. In 1989, English Heritage excavated a site nearby to this and found ruins of a settlement dating to around the same period, in which various artefacts were found.

The oldest building in the village is the tithe barn that dates from the 13th century, which is a Grade I listed building. It remains in very good condition and has had various uses throughout its history including: a tithe collection point, a corn mill, a stable, a hay barn and has held many church services there; in recent times they are held during the harvest festival period.

In the Middle Ages Poxwell, or Pokeswell, was a possession of Cerne Abbey. Following the abbey’s dissolution it was granted by Queen Elizabeth to Thomas Howard of Lulworth and Bindon. Poxwell Manor was the seat of the Henning family. It was built in 1613 by Poole merchant John Henning, whose son John had been High Sheriff of Dorsetshire in 1609. In 1699, the Manor passed Elizabeth Trenchard née Henning, the wife of Colonel Thomas Trenchard of Wolfeton (in the parish of Charminster near Dorchester). In 1727 the Trenchards resettled the Henning estates. It is understood that King George III visited the house on a number of occasions. Thomas Hardy used the Manor as Oxwell Hall in “The Trumpet Major”.^[1] The Manor remained in the Trenchard family of Lytchett Matravers and Wolverton until the 1970s. Since then the previous owner has held many charitable functions in which one of its visitors was The Princess Royal on 14 June 1997.

There was once a small church standing alongside the Manor, dedicated to St John the Evangelist that dated to around the 12th century. This was rebuilt by John Trenchard (who built the Trenchard cottages that line the road in 1843) in 1868, only to be demolished a hundred years later in 1969 as it was too costly to maintain and it was believed to be unsafe; ironically it took two steel cables to pull the spire down.

On the edge of the village stands Cairn Circle – a small stone circle that is said to have been worshipped by the druids during pagan worship over two millennia ago. It has been dubbed ""mini Stonehenge"", being just fourteen feet in diameter.

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