Manston, Dorset
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Manston is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, lying next to the River Stour in the Blackmore Vale, Template:Convert east of Sturminster Newton. The geology of the parish consists mostly of Kimmeridge clay, with a thin strip of Corallian limestone in the west.<ref name=inventory>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p17</ref>
History
In 1086 in the Domesday Book, Manston was recorded as Manestone;<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it had 19 households, 8 ploughlands, Template:Convert of meadow and 2 mills. It was in the hundred of Gillingham and tenant-in-chief was Waleran the hunter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The parish church of St Nicholas has a 13th-century chancel, 14th-century nave and 15th-century west tower.<ref name=inventory/> The first legal cremation in Britain took place at Manston House in 1883,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> carried out by Captain Thomas Hanham.<ref>http://www.mmtrust.org.uk/mausolea/view/54/Hanham_Mausoleum Hanham Mausoleum</ref>
In 2013 the estimated population of the parish was 140.<ref name="dcc" /> Northwood Farm in Manston is a former dairy farm that converted to a grain farm. It grows oats, wheat and fava beans, and has received the Biocyclic Vegan Standard.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>