Mappowder
Mappowder is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. The parish lies approximately 9 miles southeast of the town of Sherborne and covers about 1,900 acres at an elevation of 75 to 160 metres.- Type: Village with 171 residents
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Mappowder, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Peter and St Paul and Church of St Mary and St James.
Church of St Mary and St James
Church
Church of St Mary and St James is situated 1½ miles northeast of Mappowder.
Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket
Church
Parish Church of St Thomas A Becket is situated 2 miles northwest of Mappowder.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dorsetshire Gap and Kingston.
Dorsetshire Gap
Locality
The Dorsetshire Gap, also called the Dorset Gap, is an important, historic track junction - once the hub of central Dorset in southern England - and a well known beauty spot and magnet for ramblers. Dorsetshire Gap is situated 2 miles south of Mappowder.
Kingston
Hamlet
Hazelbury Bryan is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately five miles southwest of the small town of Sturminster Newton. Kingston is situated 2½ miles northeast of Mappowder.
Ansty
Village
Ansty is a village in the civil parish of Hilton, in Dorset, England, north of Cheselbourne and west of Milton Abbas. It consists of the settlements of Higher Ansty, Lower Ansty, Pleck and Ansty Cross. Ansty is situated 2½ miles southeast of Mappowder.
Mappowder
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Mappowder, North Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.85397° or 50° 51′ 14″ north
Longitude
-2.37693° or 2° 22′ 37″ west
Population
171
Elevation
381 feet (116 metres)
Open location code
9C2VVJ3F+H6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Mappowder” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mappowder”
- Cebuano: “Mappowder”
- Chinese: “Mappowder”
- Dutch: “Mappowder”
- French: “Mappowder”
- German: “Mappowder”
- Irish: “Mappowder”
- Italian: “Mappowder”
- Japanese: “マッパウダー”
- Ladin: “Mappowder”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mappowder”
- Persian: “مپاودر”
- Polish: “Mappowder”
- Spanish: “Mappowder”
- Swedish: “Mappowder”
- Urdu: “میپاؤڈر”
- Welsh: “Mappowder”
- “Mappowder”
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