Wootton Fitzpaine
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Wootton Fitzpaine is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It lies approximately Template:Convert north-east of Lyme Regis in a small side valley of the River Char, close to the Marshwood Vale. The civil parish covers an area of Template:Convert and includes the ecclesiastical parish and small settlement of Monkton Wyld to the west.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In the 2011 census the civil parish had 180 dwellings, 134 households<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and a population of 345.<ref name=keystats/>
Wootton Fitzpaine village
Wootton Fitzpaine village consists primarily of two small centres: a larger western part comprising the village hall and about 50 densely placed houses, and a smaller eastern part comprising about a dozen houses, the church and manor house.<ref name=CharVall>Template:Cite web (Note: this document is also published by Dorset County Council at dorsetforyou.co.uk)</ref> The village is sited on Middle Lias and greensand and has a history of being agriculturally relatively prosperous.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The village name derives from 'Wodetone', meaning a farm close to a wood, plus the name of the manorial family, Fitzpaine.<ref name=dhc>Template:Cite web</ref>
The parish church was built mostly between the 13th and 15th centuries but was restored and added to in 1872.<ref name=BHO>Template:Cite web</ref> It lies within the grounds of the adjacent Wootton House,<ref name=dhc/> a three-storey brick-built house re-built in about 1765 by Thomas Rose-Drewe (1740-1815),<ref>Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.308</ref> second grandson of Thomas Rose (died 1747) of Wootton House, but also restored and added to in the late 19th century.<ref name=BHO/> The rectory dates from the end of the 15th century.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Twenty structures within the parish are listed by English Heritage for their historic or architectural interest.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The village has a website http://www.wootton-fitzpaine.co.uk/
Monkton Wyld village
St Andrew's Church, Monkton Wyld was designed by Richard Cromwell Carpenter.
Monkton Wyld Court is the largest building in this hamlet, a Grade II listed Victoria Gothic former rectory built in 1848.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It was also designed by Carpenter. It offers terraced south facing lawns, a dairy farm and an organic walled kitchen garden. The building was used between 1940 and 1982 as a progressive boarding school. In 1982, Simon Fairlie<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Gill Barron<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> run it as an educational centre for sustainable living,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> The Land is Ours campaigns for Landrights in Britain there,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Guest House accommodates 42 visitors.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Footpaths and trails
The Wessex Ridgeway and Monarch's Way long-distance footpaths pass through the parish, as does the Liberty Trail, a more local designated way.<ref name=CharVall/>
Notable residents
- Richard Rose (died 1658), a member of the Long Parliament
- Thomas Rose (died 1747), Sheriff of Dorset in 1715
- John Bradbury, 3rd Baron Bradbury (born 1940)
References
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