Donhead St Andrew, Wiltshire

Description
Donhead St Andrew, a village and a parish in Wilts. The village stands on the river Nadder, near its head, and near the boundary with Dorsetshire, 3 miles SSE of Semley station on the L. & S.W.R., and 3^ ENE of Shaftcsbury, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Salisbury. The parish comprises 2848 acres; population of the civil parish, 688; of the ecclesiastical, 704. Donhead Hall belonged once to a grandson of Sir Godfrey Kneller, and is now the seat of the Du Bonlay family. Tittlepath Hill here is encircled by Castle Rings camp, and perhaps gave rise to the name Donhead, which seems to be a corruption of Dunheved, signifying " the swelling hill." The parish is a resort of sportsmen. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Salisbury; value, o£600 with residence. The church is Later English, in good condition, has an embattled and pinnacled tower, and contains an ancient Norman font, and a curiously-sculptured column capital. The building was restored in 1876.