Poyntington, Dorset, England
Poyntington Manor House
The Meadow
In June 1646, Roundheads slaughtered a small band of Royalists led by a young man named Baldwin Malet here. Malet's body is buried in the churchyard, but his comrades were buried where they fell, and today the mounds in the meadow are their gravestones. This unfortunate group, who are headless and accompanied by a young girl who somehow got caught up in the battle, reputedly haunts the area.
For further information, please read Haunted Britain by Antony D. Hippisley Coxe.
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Poyntington is a village in Dorset, England.
It lies on the edge of the Blackmore Vale about 2 miles north of Sherborne.
Pictured left is Poyntington Manor House courtesy of Mike Serle. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
