Winterborne Clenston

Winterborne Clenston is a small village and civil parish in Dorset, England.

The first part of the village name comes from the River Winterborne, which flows from north to south through the village. The river only flows overground during the winter, hence the name. In 1312 the patron of the church was Roger de Clencheston, who most likely had a farm here, after which the second part of the village name derives.

To the north is Winterborne Stickland and to the south is Winterborne Whitechurch. The river flows through both these villages as well.

The parish church of St Nicholas dates from 1840. It is built in bands of stone and flint and has a spire on top of a narrow tower. It stands alone above the Winterborne on the site of an earlier church.

The village manor is a late-15th- to early-16th-century building of Purbeck and Portland stone with courses of flint. It has mullioned windows and a gabled staircase turret on the west side.