Cripplestyle

Cripplestyle

Williams Memorial Chapel, Cripplestyle
Cripplestyle
 Cripplestyle shown within Dorset
OS grid referenceSU091123
Civil parishAlderholt
DistrictEast Dorset
Shire countyDorset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town FORDINGBRIDGE
Postcode district SP6
Dialling code 01425
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentNorth Dorset
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Coordinates: 50°54′39″N 1°52′15″W / 50.9109°N 1.8707°W / 50.9109; -1.8707

Cripplestyle is a hamlet in the civil parish of Alderholt in the East Dorset district of Dorset, England. It lies close to the Dorset-Hampshire border. The nearest town is Verwood, which lies approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) to the south.

Prior to 1894 Cripplestyle was in the parish of Cranborne.[1]

The Ebenezer Congregational Chapel was opened in Cripplestyle on 11 December 1807. Samuel Williams, from Penywaun in Brecon,[2] was the minister there for 40 years. A small rectangular cob-built thatched building, originally of 'clay, heather, wood and thatch', it was extended twice, but despite efforts to preserve it, it collapsed in October 1976. There is a stone memorial at the site now. The Williams Memorial Chapel was built in 1888, in memory of Williams, and to replace the Ebenezer Chapel as a place of regular worship.[3]

Ebenezer Chapel Memorial

References

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