Shapwick
Shapwick is a village and civil parish in east Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour 5 mi south-east of Blandford Forum and 8 mi north of Poole. The village had a population of 175 in 2021.- 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.
Philae obelisk
Obelisk
The Philae obelisk is one of a pair of twin obelisks erected at Philae in Upper Egypt in the second century BC. It was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni in 1818, who had it brought to Kingston Lacy in Dorset, England, where it still stands today. Philae obelisk is situated 2½ miles east of Shapwick.
Badbury Rings
Archaeological site
Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, 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. Badbury Rings is situated 1½ miles northeast of Shapwick.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spetisbury and Almer.
Spetisbury
Village
Spetisbury is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour and the A350, four miles southeast of Blandford Forum. According to the Domesday Book of 1086, the village had 30 households. Spetisbury is situated 1½ miles west of Shapwick.
Almer
Hamlet
Almer is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sturminster Marshall, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Almer is situated 2½ miles southwest of Shapwick.
Tarrant Rushton
Village
Tarrant Rushton is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. The village is situated in the Tarrant Valley about three miles east of Blandford Forum. Tarrant Rushton is situated 2½ miles north of Shapwick.
Shapwick
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Shapwick, East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Persian: “شپویک”
- Polish: “Shapwick”
- Swedish: “Shapwick, Dorset”
- Swedish: “Shapwick”
- Turkish: “Shapwick, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Shapwick, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Shapwick”
- “Shapwick”
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