Maiden Newton
Maiden Newton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in south-west England. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, about 9 miles north-west of the county town, Dorchester.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 1,270 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Maiden Newton, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Maiden Newton railway station and Church of St Mary.
Maiden Newton railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maiden Newton railway station is a railway station serving the village of Maiden Newton in Dorset, England. The station is located on the Heart of Wessex Line, 154.12 miles from the zero point at London Paddington, measured via Swindon and Westbury.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chalmington and Up Sydling.
Chalmington
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chalmington is a small hamlet close to the village of Cattistock, in west Dorset, England. Chalmington is situated 2 miles north of Maiden Newton.
Up Sydling
Hamlet
Up Sydling is a hamlet in west Dorset, England. It is situated at the head of Sydling Water, a tributary of the River Frome, ten miles north of Dorchester. The hamlet is in the parish of Sydling St Nicholas, about a mile north of the village. Up Sydling is situated 3 miles northeast of Maiden Newton.
Grimstone
Village
Photo: Nigej, Public domain.
Grimstone is a hamlet at the confluence of Sydling Water and the River Frome in the western part of the civil parish of Stratton, Dorset. The Great Western Railway opened Grimstone and Frampton railway station and Grimstone Viaduct in 1857 and British Railways closed the station in 1966. Grimstone is situated 3½ miles southeast of Maiden Newton.
Maiden Newton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Maiden Newton, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.77794° or 50° 46′ 41″ northLongitude
-2.57146° or 2° 34′ 17″ westPopulation
1,270Elevation
322 feet (98 metres)Open location code
9C2VQCHH+5COpenStreetMap ID
node 432990068OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2643185Wikidata ID
Q739250
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Maiden Newton” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Maiden Newton”
- Cebuano: “Maiden Newton”
- Chinese: “Maiden Newton”
- Dutch: “Maiden Newton”
- French: “Maiden Newton”
- German: “Maiden Newton”
- Irish: “Maiden Newton”
- Italian: “Maiden Newton”
- Ladin: “Maiden Newton”
- Latin: “Maiden Newton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Maiden Newton”
- Persian: “میدن نیوتون”
- Polish: “Maiden Newton”
- Spanish: “Maiden Newton”
- Swedish: “Maiden Newton”
- Welsh: “Maiden Newton”
- “Maiden Newton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Maiden Newton Mill Mill House and Maiden Newton, Greenford Church of England Primary School.
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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 “Maiden Newton”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.