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There has been a settlement here since Saxon times, although the hamlet was not formally recorded until 1086. At that time the surrounding landscape would have been divided into a number of smallholdings, and today the area is criss-crossed with the ancient pathways, hedges and fields from those times, as well as from later centuries. The main house of the settlement is St Gabriel's House, thought to have been the mediaeval manor house of Stanton. Although much of the brickwork is eighteenth century, the stone walling is medieval. it is now N.Trust holiday lets

Golden Cap Dorset Seatown

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