Dorset
North Dorset District
Ashmore

Ashmore

Ashmore is a village and civil parish in , England, 20 miles southwest of . In the 2021 census the parish had a population of 176. It has a church and several stone cottages and farms, many with thatched roofs.
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  • Type: Village with 176 residents
  • Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Ashmore, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Nicholas and Compton Abbas.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Aerodrome
Photo: Clive Perrin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Airfield is a grass airstrip 2.7 NM south of , , . Aerodrome has a CAA Ordinary Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee.

Garden
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The near in south , England, were created by landowner Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1880 as pleasure grounds for "public enlightenment and entertainment". is situated 2 miles east of Ashmore.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Melbury Abbas and Compton Abbas.

Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in north , . It is situated at the edge of the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of , 2 miles south-southwest of the town of . is situated 2½ miles northwest of Ashmore.

Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in north , . It lies 3 miles south of the town of . It is sited on greensand strata on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, below the chalk downs of . is situated 3 miles west of Ashmore.

Village
Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish in , England. It is situated in the Blackmore Vale, close to the chalk hills of , on the A350 road five miles south of and eight miles north of . is situated 3 miles west of Ashmore.

Ashmore

Latitude
50.96018° or 50° 57′ 37″ north
Longitude
-2.12404° or 2° 7′ 27″ west
Population
176
Elevation
620 feet (189 metres)
Open location code
9C2VXV6G+39
Open­Street­Map ID
node 438156930
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2656934
Wiki­data ID
Q1771529
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Ashmore” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أشمور”
  • Basque: “Ashmore”
  • Cebuano: “Ashmore”
  • Chinese: “Ashmore”
  • Dutch: “Ashmore”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اشمور”
  • French: “Ashmore”
  • Hebrew: “אשמור”
  • Irish: “Ashmore”
  • Italian: “Ashmore”
  • Ladin: “Ashmore”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ashmore (Dorset)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ashmore”
  • Norwegian: “Ashmore”
  • Persian: “اشمور، دورست”
  • Polish: “Ashmore”
  • Swedish: “Ashmore, Dorset”
  • Swedish: “Ashmore”
  • Welsh: “Ashmore”
  • “Ashmore”

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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 “Ashmore”. Photo: PaleCloudedWhite, CC BY-SA 4.0.