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42-454: He was also a nephew of General Thomas Garth , Colonel of the first dragoons and Principal Equerry to George III . Garth became a naval commander on 3 March 1804 and was promoted to captain in January 1808. In June 1809 was given the command of the 38-gun frigate HMS Imperieuse , with which he subsequently sailed in an expedition against Antwerp. After the reduction of Flushing, Garth

84-415: A hipped slate roof. In 2000 it was presented with a "Dorset Architectural Heritage Award". The Old Vicarage, previously the east wing of the vicarage, was originally a timber-framed building built about 1600. It was clad in brick in the 18th century (after the vicarage had been extended west in 1722) and a third storey added early in the 19th century. The 1722 west-wing extension became 8 The Square and

126-546: A terrace on the south side of the River Piddle. Its medieval population was relatively stable, and ten households were recorded in 1662. The site was probably abandoned gradually. In the early 17th century Puddletown was one of the first places in Dorset where the use of watermeadows developed; the practice occurred at least as early as 1620, and in 1629 the manorial court decided to allow some tenants to continue making

168-585: A native of the Piddle Valley and one-time Puddletown resident, believed it was due to Victorian "refinement", as he recalled that in his youth elderly aunts referred to Piddletrenthide as just "Trenthide". Roland Gant in Dorset Villages stated more explicitly that the Victorians used puddle because piddle "became a euphemism for 'piss'". The use of Puddletown rather than Piddletown

210-415: A population of six in 1086, four in 1327, and by the mid-seventeenth century was just one ruinous house. In 1970 its remains covered about 5.7 hectares (14 acres) and consisted of ten closes bounded by low banks, though the site is not shown on modern Ordnance Survey maps. Records indicate that Bardolfeston was declining by the 13th century and, though still occupied in the 16th, it was completely deserted by

252-537: Is listed separately. Puddletown has a village hall , which has a kitchen and bar, full disabled facilities and access, and a capacity for between 100 and 160. Since 2013 it has also housed Puddletown Community Library, which is operated solely by volunteers. On Athelhampton Road there is a doctor's surgery , which also treats patients who live in surrounding villages. Puddletown has a recreation ground on Three Lanes Way; it has one cricket pitch and two grass football pitches (one junior, one full-size). Puddletown

294-524: Is situated by the River Piddle , from which it derives its name, about 4.5 miles (7 km) northeast of the county town Dorchester . Its earlier name Piddletown fell out of favour, probably because of connotations of the word "piddle". The name Puddletown was officially sanctioned in the late 1950s. Puddletown's civil parish covers 2,908 hectares (7,185 acres) and extends to the River Frome to

336-618: Is the basis for the village of "Weatherbury" in Thomas Hardy 's novel Far from the Madding Crowd . Weatherbury Farm, the house of Bathsheba Everdene, is based on Waterston Manor, between Puddletown and Piddlehinton. Hardy's cousin, Tryphena Sparks , who was the inspiration for Hardy's poem Thoughts of Phena at News of Her Death , lived in Puddletown. Cardinal Pole , the last Roman Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury ,

378-466: The 1st Dragoons from 1801 until his death. Garth was the father of Thomas (Tommy) Garth of the 15th Hussars (1800–1873), who it is believed was the illegitimate son of Princess Sophia (1777–1848), George III and Queen Charlotte's fifth daughter. General Garth was appointed by the Prince Regent as guardian to his daughter and heiress, Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales , during

420-483: The Dorset Heaths Natural Area and some of the forest is being restored to heathland; the heath flora consists of Calluna , Ulex gallii , Ulex minor and bilberry ; fauna includes the rare smooth snake and sand lizard . Close to Puddletown Forest are Yellowham Wood and Ilsington Wood, which are ancient woodland sites, though Ilsington Wood has significant conifer plantings. In 2014

462-599: The Dorset Museum . The Roman road between Durnovaria (now Dorchester) and Badbury Rings passed through the area of the civil parish; it cut a WSW-ENE route through Puddletown Heath, between the village and the River Frome. In the 21st century a section of the road, which is 26 metres (85 ft) wide, was discovered in Puddletown Forest. Part of the arm of a 9th- or 10th-century stone cross

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504-555: The French Revolution . In 1830, Puddletown was one of the places in Dorset where agricultural labourers took part in the Captain Swing riots of southern England, protesting against very low wages and long working hours. Threshing machines were damaged and ricks burned. Wages were raised from about six or seven shillings per week to ten as a result. To the east of the church is Ilsington House, also known as

546-710: The Piddle river name, whereas downstream Puddletown, Tolpuddle , Affpuddle , Briantspuddle and Turners Puddle use Puddle . In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as Pitretone , and in 1212 it was Pideleton . John Speed used Puddletown for his county map of 1610. In 1848 Samuel Lewis used Piddletown in A Topographical Dictionary of England . In 1906 Sir Frederick Treves used Puddletown in Highways & Byways in Dorset —describing it as "the Town on

588-421: The River Frome in the south to the chalk watershed of Puddletown Down in the north. It covers 2,908 hectares (7,185 acres) and is bisected by the River Piddle, which crosses it from west to east. Measured directly, Puddletown village is about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) northeast of Dorchester, 16 miles (26 km) west of Poole and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Blandford Forum . The bedrock geology of

630-545: The magazine of the fort, containing 3000 barrels of powder and a great quantity of cartridges, caused an explosion which killed 75 men. The battery fired no more, and the Impérieuse passed by. In the spring of 1810, Thomas Garth was put under the orders of Sir George Cockburn who had been sent to Quiberon Bay to work with Baron De Kolli, who was trying to arrange the release of Ferdinand VII of Spain , held at Valençay . In November of that year, Garth took command of

672-428: The 13th century, during the reign of Henry III , the manor of 'Pidele Bardolfeston town' was owned by John of Monmouth , and leased to Sir Alfred Lincoln: on Monmouth's death, it was inherited by Lady Albretha Boterell and Lady Joan Nevill. Except for Puddletown village, the several small settlements within Puddletown parish have all either diminished or disappeared. The other settlements were Cheselbourne Ford (beside

714-412: The 17th century. Its site covers about 6.1 hectares (15 acres) and is well-preserved, revealing a 12 metres (40 ft)-wide hollow way aligned southwest–northeast, with the sites of at least eleven houses alongside, though the southern end of the site was destroyed when watermeadows were later created along the river. The site at Waterston consists of earthworks covering about 2 hectares (4.9 acres) on

756-536: The 22-gun HMS Cossack , and later of the 32-gun HMS Cerberus . In Cerberus he captured various armed ships and merchantmen in the Mediterranean . Garth married 1820, Charlotte Maitland, daughter of General Frederick Maitland . They had two daughters one of whom, Charlotte Harriet Garth married Philip William Godsal of Iscoyd Park in Flintshire . Garth was the grandfather of Philip Thomas Godsal ,

798-606: The Devil's Brook in the northeast of the parish), Bardolfeston (about half a mile northeast of Puddletown village, just north of the River Piddle), Hyde (now Druce Farm), Waterston, South Louvard (now Higher Waterston), Little Piddle (now Little Puddle Farm in neighbouring Piddlehinton parish) and Ilsington (in the south of the parish, by the River Frome). Cheselbourne Ford and Bardolfeston are abandoned . Cheselbourne Ford had

840-511: The Madding Crowd ; Weatherbury Farm, the home of principal character Bathsheba Everdene, is based on a manor house within the parish. The name Puddletown means 'farmstead on the River Piddle'. It derives from the Old English pidele , a river-name meaning 'fen' or 'marsh', and tūn , meaning 'farmstead'. Several settlements along the river derive their names from it. In the upper reaches, Piddletrenthide and Piddlehinton retain

882-498: The Old Manor, which was built in the late 17th to early 18th century. It was originally owned by the 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and in 1724 by Robert Walpole . Between 1780 and 1830 it was leased to General Thomas Garth , principal equerry to King George III . The General adopted King George III's illegitimate grandson by Princess Sophia , and brought him up at the manor. In 1861 the house was acquired by John Brymer and remained in

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924-551: The River Puddle" and a "curiously named place". In 1946 Piddletown was the name on voters lists. One explanation for the preference of Puddletown over Piddletown is that Major-General Charles William Thompson, who lived at Ilsington Lodge after returning from the Great War , pushed through the puddle variant because piddle had other connotations in army circles. The broadcaster and writer Ralph Wightman (1901–71),

966-609: The UK national parliament, Puddletown is within the West Dorset parliamentary constituency . Historically, Puddletown was in the Dorchester Rural District from 1894 to 1974, and the West Dorset district from 1974 to 2019. On 1 April 2024 the parish was abolished and merged with Athelhampton to form "Athelhampton and Puddletown". Puddletown civil parish extends between the flood plain and watermeadows of

1008-842: The author and inventor of the Godsal anti-tank rifle. His second daughter, Selina, married Frederick Lewis Scrymgeour Wedderburn. His only son, Thomas Colleton Garth, was the founder of the Garth Hunt in Berkshire . Captain Garth died at Leamington , Warwickshire , in November 1841. This biographical article related to the Royal Navy is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thomas Garth (British Army officer) General Thomas Garth (1744 – 18 November 1829)

1050-461: The church interior was refitted. There is a panelled roof in the nave , and 17th-century box pews , pulpit and gallery. There are also a number of 15th- and 16th-century monumental brasses and some stained glass by Ninian Comper . The South or Martyn family chapel has three 16th-century tombs with alabaster effigies. In 1910 the church was partially restored by Charles Ponting . Thomas Hardy led an unsuccessful campaign to prevent enlargement of

1092-814: The estimated population of Puddletown civil parish was 1,452. Figures from the 2011 census have been published for Puddletown parish combined with the small parish of Athelhampton to the east; in this area there were 663 dwellings, 614 households and a population of 1,405. Excluding ancient earthworks, there are fifty-six structures within the parish that are listed by Historic England for their historic or architectural interest, including two (the parish church and Waterston Manor ) that are listed as Grade I, and three (Ilsington House, The Old Vicarage, and 8 The Square) that are Grade II*. Puddletown's parish church, dedicated to St Mary, has been described as being "of considerable architectural interest", "of exceptional interest for its furnishings and monuments" and "one of

1134-404: The largest concentration of hollows on the heathlands in the area. The River Frome, which forms the southern boundary of the parish, is designated by Natural England as a Site of Special Scientific Interest . Southwest of the village and almost wholly within the parish is Puddletown Forest, which covers 301 hectares (740 acres) and is managed by Forestry England . The forest is on the edge of

1176-580: The months prior to her marriage to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (later King of the Belgians). For this service, Garth was presented with a silver salver by the Prince. General Garth died on 18 November 1829. He left his house, 32 Grosvenor Place , Mayfair, to Tommy Garth. He named his residuary legatee as his nephew, Captain Thomas Garth RN (1781–1841) of Haines Hill, Berkshire,

1218-402: The most exciting parish churches in the county". It has 12th-century origins—parts of the tower date from 1180 to 1200 —but was rebuilt and enlarged between the 13th and 16th centuries. The 12th-century font is particularly notable, being of a tapering beaker shape, with diapering depicting crossing stems and Acanthus leaves ; its cover is an octagonal pyramid dating from about 1635, when

1260-482: The necessary watercourses that would enable "the watering and Improvinge of theire groundes". Watermeadows are generally no longer used in southern England, though their physical remnants have persisted in many places; in Puddletown civil parish, several areas of watermeadow were shown by the Ordnance Survey as late as 1978, though none was shown in 2010. Records from 1801 show that at that time agriculture

1302-445: The original chancel . Waterston Manor, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) WNW of Puddletown village, is of early 17th-century origin, though it was largely rebuilt after a fire in 1863, and altered again in about 1911. Ilsington House dates from the late 17th to early 18th century, with alterations made in the late 18th to early 19th century and enlargement later in the 19th. It has plaster -covered brick walls, quoins of ashlar , and

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1344-714: The parish comprises rocks formed in the Santonian and Campanian ages of the Cretaceous period and the Eocene age of the Palaeogene period. In places these are overlain by younger Quaternary drift material: river terrace and head deposits, clay-with- flints , and alluvium —the last found only in the valley floors of the larger watercourses. On Puddletown Heath (now mostly covered by Puddletown Forest) are more than 370 solution hollows or sinkholes ; these constitute

1386-413: The parish exists in the form of 30 round barrows , about half of which are sited over chalk and half over Reading Beds . Many of the barrows have been damaged by more recent activities. The remains of strip lynchets of 'Celtic' fields have been found near a few of the barrows. One of the three 'Rainbarrows' on Duddle Heath has been excavated; bucket urns containing cremations from the site were taken to

1428-554: The possession of the Brymer family for the next century. The family built new cottages and a reading room in the village, and a new manor next to the church, which they restored. In local government, Puddletown is governed by Dorset Council at the highest tier, and Puddletown Area Parish Council at the lowest tier. Puddletown is part of the Puddletown and Lower Winterborne ward which elects 1 member to Dorset Council . In

1470-556: The son of General Garth's older brother, Charles (1734–1784) who was an MP and Government Agent for South Carolina , Georgia and Maryland . Another brother, George Garth (abt 1733–1819) was a British General in American Revolutionary War , and Colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot . Puddletown Puddletown is a village in the civil parish of Athelhampton and Puddletown , in Dorset , England. It

1512-436: The south. In 2013, the estimated population of the civil parish was 1450. Puddletown's parish church has significant architectural interest, particularly its furnishings and monuments. It has a 12th-century font and well-preserved woodwork, including 17th-century box pews . Thomas Hardy took an interest in the church, and the village provided the inspiration for the fictional settlement of Weatherbury in his novel Far from

1554-571: Was a British Army officer and chief equerry to George III . Garth was the son of John Garth (1701–1764), Recorder and MP for Devizes, and Rebecca, daughter of John Brompton and granddaughter of Sir Richard Raynsford , Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He entered the army as a cornet in the 1st Dragoons in 1762. He saw action in Germany in 1762 during the Seven Years' War . He

1596-467: Was discovered when a house in the village—Styles House, near the River Piddle—was demolished. The cross might have been connected with a meeting place. The fragment was incorporated into the parish church's new chancel when it was rebuilt in 1911. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Puddletown was a large and important manor that contained several villages, with 1,600 sheep recorded. In

1638-767: Was engaged in various operations on the river Scheldt . On 16 August 1809, whilst again in command of the Impérieuse , Garth in ascending the Scheldt after the other frigates, entered by mistake the Terneuse, instead of the Baerlandt channel, and became in consequence exposed to the fire of the Terneuse battery (located in Terneuzen, the Netherlands ). In returning that fire, the frigate discharged from her carronades some shrapnel shells; one of which, bursting near

1680-506: Was officially preserved in the late 1950s, when, according to Wightman, "a long County Council debate solemnly decided Piddletown should be Puddletown". The other rivers of the parish have names that derive from Celtic river-names: the Frome, which forms the parish's southern boundary, means 'fair, fine or brisk', and the Devil's Brook, which forms the north-eastern boundary, means 'dark stream'. Evidence of prehistoric human occupation in

1722-579: Was promoted to lieutenant in 1765, to captain in 1775 and to major in 1792. Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1794, he took part in the Flanders Campaign that year. he was appointed an equerry to George III in 1795. Garth rented Ilsington House at Puddletown , which was often visited by the royal family en route for Weymouth . He was further promoted to major-general on 1 January 1798, to lieutenant general on 1 January 1805 and to full general on 4 June 1814. He served as colonel of

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1764-399: Was the main component of Puddletown's economy, though cottage industry and artisan crafts were also an important element: 596 people in the parish were primarily employed in agriculture, with 221 employed in handicrafts, manufacture and trade. Cottage industry, often undertaken by women and children, was used to supplement agricultural income, though there were fewer opportunities for this after

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