Motcombe
Motcombe is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. It lies about two miles north of Shaftesbury. It is sited on Kimmeridge clay soil beneath hills at the edge of the Blackmore Vale.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Residential area
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Motcombe, Dorset”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Port Regis School.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary is situated 2,000 feet south of Motcombe.
Port Regis School
School
Photo: David Wyatt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Port Regis School is a co-educational preparatory school located in 140 acres of parkland on the Dorset-Wiltshire border in southern England, situated between the towns of Shaftesbury and Gillingham. Port Regis School is situated 1 mile south of Motcombe.
Shaftesbury Abbey
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII. Shaftesbury Abbey is situated 2 miles south of Motcombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sedgehill and Shaftesbury.
Sedgehill
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sedgehill is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sedgehill and Semley, in the southwest of the county of Wiltshire, England. It lies to the west of the A350 primary route, about 3+1⁄4 miles north of Shaftesbury, Dorset. Sedgehill is situated 1½ miles northeast of Motcombe.
Shaftesbury
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Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury and 23 miles north-northeast of Dorchester, near the border with Wiltshire.
Semley
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Semley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sedgehill and Semley, in Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles north-east of Shaftesbury in neighbouring Dorset. Semley is situated 2½ miles east of Motcombe.
Motcombe
- Categories: village and civil parish
- Location: Motcombe, North Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.03161° or 51° 1′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.21507° or 2° 12′ 54″ westPopulation
1,010Elevation
285 feet (87 metres)Open location code
9C3V2QJM+JXOpenStreetMap ID
way 117091796OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=residentialGeoNames ID
2642136Wikidata ID
Q4396605
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Motcombe” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Motcombe”
- Cebuano: “Motcombe”
- Chinese: “Motcombe”
- Dutch: “Motcombe”
- French: “Motcombe”
- Irish: “Motcombe”
- Italian: “Motcombe”
- Ladin: “Motcombe”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Motcombe”
- Persian: “موتکوم”
- Polish: “Motcombe”
- Spanish: “Motcombe”
- Swedish: “Motcombe”
- Turkish: “Motcombe”
- Welsh: “Motcombe”
- “Motcombe”
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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 “Motcombe”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.