Roadside stream, Iwerne Minster
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Roadside stream, Iwerne Minster
Image: © Maigheach-gheal Taken: 2 Aug 2008
Iwerne is an ancient British (Celtic) river-name, first recorded as Iwern broc in the mid-10th century but much older than that, probably meaning 'yew-tree stream'. Iwerne Minster is recorded as Evneminstre in the Domesday Book of 1086, but its first appearance is in a Saxon charter dated 871 where it is simply ywern or hywerna. The affix is Old English mynster '(church of) a monastery' with reference to the early possession of this estate by Shaftesbury Abbey.
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Image Location
Latitude
50.927997
Longitude
-2.19033