and a population of 978. 21.4% of residents were aged 65 or over (compared to 16.4% for England as a whole). The population of the parish in the censuses between 1921 and 2001 is shown in the table below: In literature Virginia Woolf and her husband spent five days in Iwerne Minster in April 1926; she wrote to her friend Raymond Mortimer about how, even though the appropriation of images of rural England for patriotic purposes made her "almost ashamed of England being so English", she and her husband had nevertheless been enchanted by the Dorset landscape in spring. It is possible that the name of the fictional village Bolney Minster in Woolf's 1941 novel Between the Acts was partly inspired by Iwerne. A pre-Norman conquest Iwerne Minster is imagined, along with neighbouring village Shroton, in Julian Rathbone's 1997 novel The Last English King. See also Lord Wolverton Talbot (dog) References External links Clayesmore School Website Villages in Dorset