Dorset
East Dorset District
Shapwick

Shapwick

Shapwick is a village and civil parish in east , England, situated on the River Stour five miles south-east of and eight miles north of . The village had a population of 175 in 2021.
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  • Type: Village with 175 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in east Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Shapwick, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew and Philae obelisk.

Church
Photo: Steve Rigg, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Obelisk
Photo: Eugene Birchall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is one of a pair of twin obelisks erected at Philae in in the second century BC. It was discovered by William John Bankes in 1815, who had it brought to in , , where it still stands today. is situated 2½ miles east of Shapwick.

Archaeological site
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is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east , England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple was located immediately west of the fort, and there was a Romano-British town known as Vindocladia a short distance to the south-west. is situated 1½ miles northeast of Shapwick.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Spetisbury and Almer.

Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in north , England, situated on the River Stour and the A350, four miles southeast of . According to the Domesday Book of 1086, the village had 30 households. is situated 1½ miles west of Shapwick.

Hamlet
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of , England. is situated 2½ miles southwest of Shapwick.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in north , . The village is situated in the Tarrant Valley about three miles east of . is situated 2½ miles north of Shapwick.

Shapwick

Latitude
50.81567° or 50° 48′ 56″ north
Longitude
-2.08762° or 2° 5′ 15″ west
Population
175
Elevation
89 feet (27 metres)
Open location code
9C2VRW86+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 671802047
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2638130
Wiki­data ID
Q2427125
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Shapwick” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Shapwick”
  • Chinese: “Shapwick”
  • Dutch: “Shapwick”
  • French: “Shapwick”
  • Irish: “Shapwick”
  • Italian: “Shapwick (Dorset)”
  • Italian: “Shapwick”
  • Ladin: “Shapwick (Dorset)”
  • Ladin: “Shapwick”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shapwick (Dorset)”
  • Persian: “شپویک، دورست”
  • Polish: “Shapwick”
  • Swedish: “Shapwick, Dorset”
  • Swedish: “Shapwick”
  • Turkish: “Shapwick, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Shapwick, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Shapwick”
  • “Shapwick”

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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 “Shapwick”. Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.