Winborne

Winborne, a market-town of Dorsetshire, at the confluence of the Allen and Stour, 7 miles N. of Poole and 25½ E. of Dorchester. Here, about 705, St Cuthburgh, King Ine's sister, founded a nunnery, which Edward the Confessor refounded as a collegiate church—the noble cruciform minster, Norman to Perpendicular in style, with a central and a west tower, and the tomb of Ethelred I. There is also a grammar-school (1496; refounded 1563). Coach-building and the manufacture of buttons and woollen hose give employment. Pop. of parish, 5400. See works by P. Hall (1853) and Yeatman (1878).