English Explanatory Dictionary

Sturminster Marshall

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A village and civil parish in east Dorset, England (OS grid ref SY9499).

Word forms

Sturminster Marshall

Etymology

Sturminster means a "church on the River Stour", recorded as Sture minster in the 9th century, Sturminstre in 1086 (DB), Sturministre Marescal in 1268, with manorial affix from the Mareschal family. Minster is from Old English mynster.

Related words

Charlton Marshall Sturminster Newton
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