Puddletown
Puddletown is a village in the civil parish of Athelhampton and Puddletown, in Dorset, England. It is situated by the River Piddle, from which it derives its name, about 4.5 miles northeast of the county town Dorchester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,160 residents
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Piddletown”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Athelhampton Hall and Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum.
Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum
Museum
Photo: John H Darch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum is situated 2 miles east of Puddletown.
Thomas Hardy’s Cottage
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd —when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford. Thomas Hardy’s Cottage is situated 2 miles southwest of Puddletown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tolpuddle and Woodsford.
Tolpuddle
Village
Photo: Gillian Moy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tolpuddle is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, 8 miles east of Dorchester, the county town, and 12 miles west of Poole. Tolpuddle is situated 2 miles east of Puddletown.
Woodsford
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodsford is a village and civil parish beside the River Frome, Dorset, England, about 4 miles east of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 80. Woodsford is situated 2½ miles south of Puddletown.
Affpuddle
Hamlet
Photo: Ydigresse, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Affpuddle is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, in the Dorset district of the ceremonial county of Dorset, England, 9 miles east of Dorchester. Affpuddle is situated 3 miles east of Puddletown.
Puddletown
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Puddletown, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.74892° or 50° 44′ 56″ northLongitude
-2.34684° or 2° 20′ 49″ westPopulation
1,160Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB PDNOpen location code
9C2VPMX3+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 1589845469OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Puddletown” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Puddletown”
- Cebuano: “Puddletown”
- Chinese: “Puddletown”
- Dutch: “Puddletown”
- French: “Puddletown”
- German: “Puddletown”
- Irish: “Puddletown”
- Italian: “Puddletown”
- Japanese: “パドルタウン”
- Ladin: “Puddletown”
- Latin: “Puddletown”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Puddletown”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puddletown”
- Persian: “پادلتاون”
- Polish: “Puddletown”
- Spanish: “Puddletown”
- Swedish: “Puddletown”
- Welsh: “Puddletown”
- “Puddletown”
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Notable Places Nearby
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