Minterne Magna

Minterne Magna

Coordinates: 50°50′15″N 2°29′02″W / 50.837501°N 2.48401°W / 50.837501; -2.48401

Minterne Magna
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A manor house in the village
Minterne Magna is located in Dorset
Minterne Magna

 Minterne Magna shown within Dorset
Population 188 
OS grid reference ST659042
District West Dorset
Shire county Dorset
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament West Dorset
List of places: UK • England • Dorset


Minterne Magna is a village in west Dorset, England, situated at the source of the River Cerne in the Dorset Downs, on the A352 main road half way between Dorchester and Sherborne. The village has a population of 188 (As of 2001).

Minterne House

Minterne House (set back from the main road along a curved drive) is the ancestral home of the Digby family. Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman, (1920-1997), daughter of Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby, was raised at the manor house from 1920-1938, and lived there before her marriage to Randolph Churchill in 1939. Jane Digby, the noted adventuress and mistress of Ludwig I of Bavaria, was also raised there along with her brother Edward Digby, 9th Baron Digby. They were the children of Admiral Henry Digby, a senior British naval officer, who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Royal Navy. It was his wealth that established the original manor house, the bulk of which came from prize money. In 1799 he had been given command of the frigate HMS Alcmene, during which time he captured dozens of small merchant ships and had a hand in seizing the Spanish treasure frigate rhododendron garden, which runs in an elongated 'u' shape around the slopes of a small spur of land that stretches into the valley floor. Providing shade for the rhododendrons are many mature trees, including more unusual specimens such as Davidia involucrata ('Handkerchief Tree').

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Coordinates: 50°50′15″N 2°29′02″W / 50.837501°N 2.48401°W / 50.837501; -2.48401


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