Thorncombe
Thorncombe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It was historically, until 1844, an exclave of Devon. It lies five miles south east of the town of Chard in neighbouring Somerset.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Residential area
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, UK
- Also known as: “Thorncombe, Dorset”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Parish Church of St Mary and Holy Trinity Church, Blackdown.
Holy Trinity Church, Blackdown
Church
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England church in Blackdown, Dorset, England. The church was designed by Edward Ledger Bracebridge and built in 1839–40. It now forms part of the Beaminster Area Team Ministry. Holy Trinity Church, Blackdown is situated 1¼ miles east of Thorncombe.
Church of St Stephen, Winsham
Church
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Anglican Church of St Stephen in Winsham, Somerset, England, was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. Church of St Stephen, Winsham is situated 2 miles north of Thorncombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blackdown and Marshwood.
Blackdown
Hamlet
Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blackdown is a village in Broadwindsor parish in the west of Dorset, England, situated on the B3165 road 7 miles west of Beaminster. It had a population of 128 at the 2001 Census.
Marshwood
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marshwood is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the northern edge of the Marshwood Vale approximately 5.5 miles northeast of Lyme Regis. Marshwood is situated 2½ miles south of Thorncombe.
Bettiscombe
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bettiscombe is a small village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated in the Marshwood Vale four miles west of Beaminster. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the civil parish is 50. Bettiscombe is situated 2½ miles southeast of Thorncombe.
Thorncombe
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Thorncombe, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.82615° or 50° 49′ 34″ northLongitude
-2.88804° or 2° 53′ 17″ westPopulation
703Elevation
482 feet (147 metres)Open location code
9C2VR4G6+FQOpenStreetMap ID
way 224085173OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialGeoNames ID
2635999Wikidata ID
Q1944795
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Thorncombe” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Thorncombe”
- Chinese: “Thorncombe”
- Dutch: “Thorncombe”
- French: “Thorncombe”
- Irish: “Thorncombe”
- Italian: “Thorncombe”
- Ladin: “Thorncombe”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thorncombe”
- Persian: “تورنکومب”
- Polish: “Thorncombe”
- Swedish: “Thorncombe”
- Turkish: “Thorncombe”
- Welsh: “Thorncombe”
- “Thorncombe”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Thorncombe”. Photo: Ray Beer, CC BY-SA 2.0.