Dorset
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Melbury Abbas

Melbury Abbas

Melbury Abbas is a village and civil parish in north , . It is situated at the edge of the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of , 2 miles south-southwest of the town of .
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  • Type: Village with 301 residents
  • Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Melbury Abbas, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Thomas and Compton Abbas.

Church
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aerodrome
Photo: Clive Perrin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Airfield is a grass airstrip 2.7 NM south of , , . Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee.

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was an abbey that housed nuns in , . 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. is situated 2 miles northwest of Melbury Abbas.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Compton Abbas and Fontmell Magna.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in north , . It lies 3 miles south of the town of . It is sited on greensand strata on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, below the chalk downs of .

Village
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is a village and civil parish in , England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale, close to the chalk hills of , on the A350 road five miles south of and eight miles north of . is situated 2 miles southwest of Melbury Abbas.

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is a town and civil parish in , England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury and 23 miles north-northeast of , near the border with .

Melbury Abbas

Latitude
50.97882° or 50° 58′ 44″ north
Longitude
-2.16931° or 2° 10′ 10″ west
Population
301
Elevation
453 feet (138 metres)
Open location code
9C2VXRHJ+G7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30106387
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2642799
Wiki­data ID
Q2320378
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Welsh—“Melbury Abbas” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Chinese: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Dutch: “Melbury Abbas”
  • French: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Irish: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Italian: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Ladin: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Persian: “ملبری اباس”
  • Polish: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Swedish: “Melbury Abbas”
  • Welsh: “Melbury Abbas”
  • “Melbury Abbas”

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Highlights include Compton Down and Melbury Hill.

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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 “Melbury Abbas”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.