Cheselbourne
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Cheselbourne (sometimes spelled Chesilborne<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> or Cheselborne) is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the Dorset Downs, Template:Convert north-east of Dorchester. The parish is at an altitude of 75 to 245 metres (approximately 250 to 800 feet) and covers an area of Template:Convert; the underlying geology is chalk.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 296.<ref name=ONS/>
The village, which contains a mix of buildings of different ages and styles, is spread along four lanes which meet here. It has a public house called the Rivers Arms. The 13th- to 14th-century parish church has a pinnacled tower with battlements, numerous gargoyles<ref name=Gant>Template:Cite book</ref> and a canonical sundial.
In 1086, in the Domesday Book Cheselbourne was recorded as Ceseburne;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it had 36 households, Template:Convert of meadow and one mill. It was in the hundred of Hilton and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Cheselbourne used to be the site of a tradition known as "Treading in the Wheat", in which young women from the village would walk the fields on Palm Sunday, dressed in white.<ref name=Gant/>
At Lyscombe Farm in the northwest of the parish are the remains of an early 13th-century chapel. The nave was once used as a bakehouse and then a farmworker's dwelling. In 1957, a Dutch barn was built over the ruins.<ref name=Gant/> Template:Clear left