Poyntington

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Template:Infobox UK place Poyntington is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale about Template:Convert north of Sherborne. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 128.<ref name=ons/>

Poyntington shares a grouped parish council, Yeohead & Castleton Parish Council, with the three village parishes of Castleton, Goathill and Oborne.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Until 1896 the village was in Somerset,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> part of the hundred of Horethorne.<ref name=genuki>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

All Saints' Church has grown from an Anglo-Saxon two-room design and contains original Norman work. Murals on pillars were discovered in 1848<ref>Poyntington, Genuki, accessed July 2009</ref> but were destroyed by their exposure. Two stained-glass windows date from the fourteenth century. An unusual addition is a carving of an angel's wing which was blown off Amiens Cathedral in World War I and then donated to the church.<ref>Poyntington Church Template:Webarchive, Dorset Historic Churches Trust, accessed July 2009</ref>

Notable residents

• Sir Thomas Malet, Judge
• William Launcelot Scott Fleming
• Sir Ralph Cheyne (d.1400)