Minterne Magna

A manor house in the village

Minterne Magna is a village in west Dorset, England, situated at the source of the River Cerne in the Dorset Downs, half way between Dorchester and Sherborne. The village has a population of 188 (As of 2001).

Minterne Magna is also the name of the ancestral home of the Digby family. Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman, (1920-1993) was raised at the manor house from 1920-1938, and lived there before her marriage to Randolph Churchill in 1939. Jane Digby, the noted mistress of Ludwig I, was also raised there. The manor house was originally built with the plundered silver and gold coins from ships seized by a Digby ancestor, who looted ships venturing across the Atlantic, under British Crown authority.

External links

• Census data
• Pictures of Minterne Magna