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Tarrant Monkton is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated in the Tarrant Valley about ENE of Blandford Forum.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tarrant Monkton )〕 Within the parish boundary, sited 1.5 miles over hills to the west, lies the major part of Blandford Camp army base. In the 2011 census the parish—including the army base— had a population of 1,986. The village is centred on the All Saints Parish Church, opposite which is the Langton Arms, a public house and restaurant. ==History== Evidence of prehistoric human activity within the parish includes three round barrows, traces of a possible Iron Age or Romano-British settlement, a long dyke on the SW edge of the army camp and a linear dyke on Luton Down. The barrows previously numbered thirteen; ten others were destroyed after the construction of the army camp in 1914. The Roman road between Badbury Rings and Bath also passed through the parish. In 1086 in the Domesday Book Tarrant Monkton was recorded as ''Tarente'', and by 1280 it was ''Tarent Moneketon'', the latter part of the name - derived from the Old English ''manne'' and ''tan'' - referring to ownership by the monks of Tewkesbury Abbey. The Domesday entry states that ''Tarente'' had 28 households, 8 ploughlands, of meadow and one mill. It was in Pimperne Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Cranborne Abbey. In the village the River Tarrant is crossed by a packhorse bridge that probably dates from the 17th century.〔 The bridge was part of an old route between Blandford Forum and Moor Crichel.〔 The Tarrant Valley was agriculturally prosperous in the early 19th century due to high wheat prices and low labour costs. Wealthy farming squires built large farmhouses that survive to this day, though their workers often lived in mud-walled cottages that, according to Dorset-born broadcaster and agriculturist Ralph Wightman, "were no more improvable than old pigsties", and these generally have not survived. Until the end of the 19th century the neighbouring parish of Tarrant Launceston was part of Tarrant Monkton parish. All Saints parish church is built of flint and ashlar and has a chancel dating from around 1400, and a 15th-century nave and west tower, though the building was substantially altered in the 18th century and in 1873.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tarrant Monkton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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