Dorset
North Dorset District
Sturminster Newton

Sturminster Newton

Sturminster Newton is a town and civil parish situated on the River Stour in the north of , England. The town is at the centre of the Blackmore Vale, a large dairy agriculture region around which the town's economy is built, and is known as 'the heart of the Blackmore vale'.
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  • Type: Town with 3,500 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Sturminster Newton, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Sturminster Newton and Swan Hotel.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Church is a Church of England Parish Church in Sturminster Newton, Dorset. The present church dates from a rebuild in 1486 by the abbots of Glastonbury.

Pub
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is a pub.

Castle
is a site consisting of the remains of a medieval manor house within an Iron Age hillfort, near Sturminster Newton in , England. The ruins are privately owned.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Piddles Wood and Fiddleford.

Locality
Photo: Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small area of woodland south of the River Stour, Dorset, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The site was notified as an SSSI in 1985.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in the county of in southern England. is situated between Sturminster Newton and in the north of the county.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet in the county of in southern , situated about 2 miles west and northwest of Sturminster Newton in the Dorset unitary authority. is situated 2 miles west of Sturminster Newton.

Sturminster Newton

Latitude
50.9274° or 50° 55′ 39″ north
Longitude
-2.30492° or 2° 18′ 18″ west
Population
3,500
Elevation
203 feet (62 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SRR
Open location code
9C2VWMGW+X2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 293687185
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2636583
Wiki­data ID
Q693064
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Sturminster Newton” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Basque: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Cebuano: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Chinese: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Dutch: “Sturminster Newton”
  • French: “Sturminster Newton”
  • German: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Irish: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Italian: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Japanese: “スターミンスター・ニュートン”
  • Ladin: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Latin: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Norwegian: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Persian: “استورمینستر نیوتون”
  • Polish: “Sturminster Newton”
  • South Azerbaijani: “استورمینستر نیوتون”
  • Spanish: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Swedish: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Turkish: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Volapük: “Sturminster Newton”
  • Welsh: “Sturminster Newton”
  • “Sturminster Newton”

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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 “Sturminster Newton”. Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.