Marshwood
Marshwood is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated on the northern edge of the Marshwood Vale approximately 5.5 miles northeast of Lyme Regis.- Type: Village with 310 residents
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Marshwood, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Mary’s Church and The Bottle Inn.
St Mary’s Church
Church
St Mary's Church is a Church of England church in Marshwood, Dorset, England. The earliest part of the church is the tower, which dates to 1840, while the rest of the building dates to a rebuild of 1883–84.
The Bottle Inn
Pub
The Bottle Inn is a 16th-century public house at Marshwood in Dorset, England which hosts the World Nettle Eating Championship. It is Grade II listed.
Lambert’s Castle Hill
Heath
Lambert's Castle Hill rises between the villages of Marshwood and Fishpond Bottom in the county of Dorset, England. It is part of the South Dorset Downs and its prominence qualifies it as one of the so-called HuMPs.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bettiscombe and Pilsdon.
Bettiscombe
Hamlet
Bettiscombe is a small village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, situated in the Marshwood Vale four miles west of Beaminster. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the civil parish is 50.
Pilsdon
Hamlet
Pilsdon is a hamlet and civil parish in the Dorset unitary authority area of Dorset, England. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 50. Pilsdon is situated 2 miles east of Marshwood.
Blackdown
Hamlet
Blackdown is a village in Broadwindsor parish in the west of Dorset, England, situated on the B3165 road 7 miles west of Beaminster. It had a population of 128 at the 2001 Census. Blackdown is situated 2½ miles north of Marshwood.
Marshwood
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Marshwood, West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.79335° or 50° 47′ 36″ north
Longitude
-2.87484° or 2° 52′ 29″ west
Population
310
Elevation
548 feet (167 metres)
Open location code
9C2VQ4VG+83
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Marshwood” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Marshwood”
- Chinese: “Marshwood”
- Dutch: “Marshwood”
- French: “Marshwood”
- Irish: “Marshwood”
- Italian: “Marshwood”
- Ladin: “Marshwood”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Marshwood”
- Persian: “مارشوود”
- Polish: “Marshwood”
- Swedish: “Marshwood”
- Urdu: “مارش ووڈ”
- Welsh: “Marshwood”
- “Marshwood”
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