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Folke

Folke is a parish in the county of in southern , situated in the Blackmore Vale, approximately 3.5 miles south-east of . The parish has an area of 2,120 acres and is made of the villages of Folke and Alweston, and the hamlet of Bishops Down.
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Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Village with 321 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Folke, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sherborne Castle and Folke Wood.

Castle
Photo: JackPeasePhotography, CC BY 2.0.
is a 16th-century Tudor mansion southeast of in , , within the parish of . Originally built by Sir Walter Raleigh as Sherborne Lodge, and extended in the 1620s, it stands in a 1,200-acre park which formed a small part of the 15,000-acre Digby estate.

Forest
is a wood near Folke in , . It was planted by the Woodland Trust in 1985. It consists of native broadleaved trees as well as apple and ash trees. The apple trees are the remains of an orchard which existed in the 19th century.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Peter and St Paul's Church is a Church of England parish church in , , England. It was designed by Robert Howard Shout and built in 1856–57. The church is a Grade II listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sherborne and Longburton.

Photo: Andrewrabbott, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small town in . A market town and civil parish in northwest Dorset, it's sited on the River Yeo on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.

Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
or Long Burton is a village in , England, three miles south of . It is sited on a narrow outcrop of Cornbrash limestone, at the western end of Blackmore Vale. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 524.

Village
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is a civil parish in the county of . The parish virtually encircles the town of , and contains within its boundary both and Sherborne Old Castle. is situated 2½ miles north of Folke.

Folke

Latitude
50.9185° or 50° 55′ 7″ north
Longitude
-2.4854° or 2° 29′ 7″ west
Population
321
Elevation
272 feet (83 metres)
Open location code
9C2VWG97+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 435166298
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7295018
Wiki­data ID
Q2455527
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Folke” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Фолке”
  • Cebuano: “Folke”
  • Chinese: “Folke”
  • Dutch: “Folke”
  • French: “Folke”
  • Irish: “Folke”
  • Ladin: “Folke”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Folke”
  • Polish: “Folke”
  • Swedish: “Folke (parish i Storbritannien)”
  • Swedish: “Folke, England”
  • Welsh: “Folke”
  • “Folke”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Parish Church of St Lawrence and Dovecote 40 Metres South East Of Folke.

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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 “Folke”. Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.