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Dist:0.2km<br/>Hammoon sounds a little 'arabic' but appears to take its name from an original Saxon name of Hamm meaning home, and a later change caused by the granting of this land to a Norman by the name of William of Moyon.
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Dist:0.2km<br/>Hammoon Manor was built around 1500 with a thatched roof and has Tuscan columns and mullioned Tudor windows. A Purbeck limestone porch of classical proportions was added a century later.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>Just down the side-road from the church, the manor house at Hammoon.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>A Victorian reign postbox set into the wall of the minor no through road.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The Saxons called it Hamm (meaning home) but a Norman who followed William the Conqueror to England was presented with the village which became the home of William of Moyon.
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©Mike Searle
Dist:0.3km<br/>A Victorian postbox, emptied at 9 o'clock each morning except Sunday.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>One of the most picturesque houses in Dorset, it dates from the beginning of the C16, and its unusual two storey porch is of this period. It was later extended to the east in 1560, and added to again in the C17, and C19. The Norman family de Mohun owned the manor, part of the spoils of war after the Battle of Hastings. The former settlement of Ham was then subsequently renamed Ham Mohun, that became over the centuries anglicised to Hammoon. The house is Grade II* Listed.
©Mike Searle
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©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>The porch is 15th century.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Chancel and part of the South Wall are 13th century, the North Wall of the Nave is 15th century and the porch is 15th century.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>The font is 14th century and the cover is modern.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Probably early 16th century work.
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Dist:0.3km<br/>Made of oak and probably locally made in c.1635.
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