Horton
Horton is a village in Dorset, England, situated on the boundary between the chalk downland of Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Heaths, and ten miles north of Poole. The village has a population of 515.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stuart Buchan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 493 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Horton, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Wolfrida and All Saints’ Church, Chalbury.
All Saints’ Church, Chalbury
Church
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
All Saints' Church is a Church of England church in Chalbury, Dorset, England. It has 13th-century origins, with later alterations and additions, and many 18th-century furnishings.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hinton Martell and Knowlton.
Hinton Martell
Village
Photo: Jim Probert, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hinton Martell is a village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Hinton, in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the Dorset unitary authority area of the county, three miles north of the town of Wimborne Minster.
Knowlton
Hamlet
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Knowlton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Woodlands, Dorset, England. It is about 6 miles north of town Wimborne Minster, and about 1 mile south of the village of Wimborne St Giles. Knowlton is situated 1½ miles north of Horton.
Mannington
Hamlet
Mannington and its southerly neighbour Lower Mannington are hamlets in the English county of Dorset. They are located within Holt parish 2.5 miles north of Ferndown and 2.5 miles south-east of Verwood. Mannington is situated 2 miles southeast of Horton.
Horton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Horton, East Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.86686° or 50° 52′ 1″ northLongitude
-1.95816° or 1° 57′ 29″ westPopulation
493Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB ZBMOpen location code
9C2WV28R+PPOpenStreetMap ID
node 19820601OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Horton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Horton”
- Chinese: “Horton”
- Dutch: “Horton”
- French: “Horton”
- Irish: “Horton”
- Italian: “Horton (Dorset)”
- Italian: “Horton”
- Japanese: “ホートン”
- Ladin: “Horton”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Horton (Dorset)”
- Persian: “هورتون، دورست”
- Polish: “Horton”
- Swedish: “Horton, Dorset”
- Swedish: “Horton”
- Turkish: “Horton, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Horton, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Horton”
- “Horton”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Horton and Chalbury Village Hall and Horton Estate Vineyard.
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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 “Horton”. Photo: Stuart Buchan, CC BY-SA 2.0.