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Synonyms for poorton or Related words with poorton
chelborough
burstock
upwaltham
barkwith
mosterton
ingrave
newbald
middlezoy
mundham
fiddington
rigton
evershot
leasingham
yafforth
hoggeston
rudbaxton
leebotwood
staintondale
bedburn
trewen
raywell
erradale
llandevenny
aldwick
bucklesham
eastoft
hogsthorpe
tebworth
frinsted
flawith
tixover
whissonsett
stokenham
horndon
payhembury
winkleigh
gosbeck
greengairs
cheselbourne
halstock
barningham
heslerton
tritlington
casthorpe
romansleigh
brauncewell
monkokehampton
plawsworth
funtington
lynesack
Examples of "poorton"
North
Poorton
is a hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, situated in the West Dorset district about northeast of Bridport. Dorset County Council estimate the parish had a population of 20 in 2013.
Loders lies within an electoral ward of the same name, which also includes the surrounding area from the edge of Bridport via Powerstock to North
Poorton
. The population of this ward was 1,697 at the 2011 census. The ward is one of 32 that comprise the West Dorset parliamentary constituency, which is currently represented in the UK national parliament by the Conservative Oliver Letwin.
The origins of the name Powerstock have not been fully determined; the second part derives from the Old English "stoc", meaning an outlying farmstead, but the first part—similar to the nearby settlement of
Poorton
—is unresolved. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as "Povrestoch". According to one source, the name was 'Poorstock' until the Bridport Railway was built through the village in 1857, when the change to Powerstock was made to avoid connotations of 'poor (rolling) stock'. However another source states the name existed in its current form as early as 1787. Powerstock railway station (and the entire Bridport branch line) closed on 5 May 1975.
Powerstock is a village and civil parish in south west Dorset, England, situated in a steep valley on the edge of the Dorset Downs, north-east of the market town of Bridport. The civil parish includes the village of West Milton to the west and the summit and northern slopes of Eggardon Hill to the south-east. Powerstock village contains many cottages and 2 inns: "The Three Horseshoes" near the church and "The Marquis of Lorne Inn" on the other side of the valley in a small hamlet called Nettlecombe. The small Mangerton River runs through the valley. In 2013 the parish had an estimated population of 290. In the 2011 census figures have been published for Powerstock parish combined with the small parish of North
Poorton
to the north; the population in this area was 358.