Cranborne Chase
Cranborne Chase is an area of central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. It is part of the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sandroyd School and Larmer Tree Gardens.
Sandroyd School
School
Photo: Toby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandroyd School is an independent co-educational preparatory school for day and boarding pupils aged 2 to 13 in the south of Wiltshire, England. The school's main building is Rushmore House, a 19th-century country house which is surrounded by the Rushmore Estate, now playing fields, woods and parkland.
Larmer Tree Gardens
Garden
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Larmer Tree Gardens near Tollard Royal in south Wiltshire, England, were created by landowner Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1880 as pleasure grounds for "public enlightenment and entertainment". Larmer Tree Gardens is situated 2 miles southwest of Cranborne Chase.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sixpenny Handley and Woodyates.
Sixpenny Handley
Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sixpenny Handley or Handley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in north east Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase ten miles north east of Blandford Forum. Sixpenny Handley is situated 2 miles southeast of Cranborne Chase.
Woodyates
Hamlet
Photo: Paul Billington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodyates is a hamlet, sometimes considered a village, in the civil parish of Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, in the county of Dorset, near its border with Wiltshire, in the west of England. Woodyates is situated 4 miles east of Cranborne Chase.
Bowerchalke
Village
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Bowerchalke is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 9 miles southwest of Salisbury. It is in the south of the county, about 1 mile from the boundary with Dorset and 2 miles from that with Hampshire. Bowerchalke is situated 4 miles northeast of Cranborne Chase.
Cranborne Chase
- Type: Forest
- Description: Plateau in southern England
- Category: plateau
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Cranborne Chase” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cranborne Chase”
- Chinese: “克兰伯恩蔡斯”
- Dutch: “Cranborne Chase”
- French: “Cranborne Chase”
- German: “Cranborne Chase”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cranborne Chase”
- Norwegian: “Cranborne Chase”
- Portuguese: “Cranborne Chase”
- Spanish: “Cranborne Chase”
- Swedish: “Cranborne Chase”
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