Bryanston
Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK place Bryanston Template:IPAc-en is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour Template:Convert west of Blandford Forum. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 925.<ref name=ons/> The village is adjacent to the grounds of Bryanston School, an independent school.
The village was named after Brian de Lisle, a Baron at the court of King John. The Rogers family owned it for a long period of time, and it was later purchased by Sir William Portman, 6th Baronet, who took part in crushing Monmouth's rebellion in 1685. In the 1890s the Portman family built a large country house, designed by Richard Norman Shaw<ref name=nddc>Template:Cite book</ref> and set in Template:Convert. Since 1927 the building has been the home of Bryanston School.<ref name=nddc/> In 1950 Viscount Portman gave up the Bryanston Estates as part payment of death duties.<ref name=nddc/> The estate was then owned by the crown until 2015 when the estate was purchased by a UK company held on behalf of the Viscount Rothermere and his son the Hon Vere Harmsworth for an initially undisclosed sum, which the Crown Estate confirmed in a Freedom Of Information request to have been £43million.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>