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Godmanstone
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Godmanstone (or Godmanston) is a village and civil parish in Dorset in southern England, situated approximately north of the county town Dorchester. Its name means "Godman's Farm" and it is sited by the River Cerne amongst chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.
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Place details
- Locality
- Godmanstone
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image_name
- Godmanstone, parish church of the Holy Trinity - geograph.org.uk - 506454.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Parish church of the Holy Trinity, Godmanstone
- UK place.population
- 166
- UK place.population_ref
- (2021 census)
- UK place.map_type
- Dorset
- UK place.official_name
- Godmanstone
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
- UK place.post_town
- Dorchester
- UK place.postcode_area
- DT
- UK place.postcode_district
- DT2
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Dorset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SY667972
- UK place.mapframe
- yes
- UK place.mapframe zoom
- 12
- UK place.mapframe wikidata
- yes
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- The Smiths Arms
- Holy Trinity Church
- Demographics
- Notable inhabitants
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Godmanstone (or Godmanston) is a village and civil parish in Dorset in southern England, situated approximately north of the county town Dorchester. Its name means "Godman's Farm" and it is sited by the River Cerne amongst chalk hills of the Dorset Downs.
==The Smiths Arms== Godmanstone used to have a pub — The Smiths Arms — which claimed to be the smallest in Britain, with the interior measuring by . The story attached to the claim was that the original licence was granted by Charles II when he requested that the village blacksmith serve him a glass of porter. The smith refused because he had no licence, so Charles granted him one on the spot and was served his drink. The licence only applied to the smithy; adjacent living quarters, subsequently used by drinkers, were larger. The business closed at the start of 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Godmanstone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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