Manston
Manston is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, lying next to the River Stour in the Blackmore Vale, two miles east of Sturminster Newton.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 5,260 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, UK
- Also known as: “Manston, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Nicholas and Church of St Paul.
Fiddleford Manor
Manor estate
Photo: marilynjane, CC BY 2.0.
Fiddleford Manor is a medieval manor house located near Sturminster Newton, Dorset. It is thought to have been originally built around 1370 for William Latimer, the sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, after the manor passed to him in 1355.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include West Orchard and Fiddleford.
West Orchard
Village
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
West Orchard is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale in the Dorset administrative district, approximately halfway between the towns of Shaftesbury and Sturminster Newton.
Fiddleford
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Fiddleford is a hamlet in the county of Dorset in southern England. Fiddleford is situated between Sturminster Newton and Okeford Fitzpaine in the north of the county. Fiddleford is situated 1½ miles southwest of Manston.
Piddles Wood
Locality
Photo: Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Piddles Wood is a small area of woodland south of the River Stour, Dorset, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The site was notified as an SSSI in 1985. Piddles Wood is situated 2 miles southwest of Manston.
Manston
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Manston, North Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.93901° or 50° 56′ 20″ northLongitude
-2.26433° or 2° 15′ 52″ westPopulation
5,260Elevation
167 feet (51 metres)Open location code
9C2VWPQP+J7OpenStreetMap ID
node 509294202OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643095Wikidata ID
Q686186
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Manston” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Manston”
- Chinese: “Manston”
- Czech: “Manston”
- Dutch: “Manston”
- French: “Manston”
- Irish: “Manston”
- Italian: “Manston (Dorset)”
- Italian: “Manston”
- Ladin: “Manston (Dorset)”
- Ladin: “Manston”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Manston (Dorset)”
- Persian: “منستون، دورست”
- Polish: “Manston”
- Swedish: “Manston, Dorset”
- Swedish: “Manston”
- Welsh: “Manston, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Manston”
- “Manston”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Manston Village Hall and Northwood Coppice.
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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 “Manston”. Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.