Talk:Wimborne St Giles

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Inaccurate reference to Domesday book.[edit]

The article wrongly says that Domesday book records a church at Wimborne St Giles. This is not accurate, though it is a myth that is widely repeated in secondary sources online. Domesday is a record of land use and ownership, and generally does not record the existence of individual parish church buildings. What Domesday actually says, in two references, is that "this church holds" ["ipsa aecclesia ten."] [implied: "some land at"] Wimborne (St Giles): the "this" is in each case a reference to a preceding paragraph - in the first reference, the church holding the land is St Mary Cranborne; in the second, it is Wilton Abbey. Can we agree to remove the wrong statement? Details taken from Domesday book Dorset published by Phillimore 1983, edited by Caroline & Frank Thorn. I have also emailed the Online Parish Clerk (OPC) for Wimborne St Giles, whose page is cited as the reference in the wiki article, to ask the OPC to correct the wrong reference to 1086/ Domesday on the OPC page. Leo Brennan (talk) 17:41, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]