Thornford
Thornford is a village and civil parish in north-west Dorset, England, situated in the Yeo valley 4 miles southwest of Sherborne. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of the parish is 830.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 794 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset. United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Thornford, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene and Thornford railway station.
Thornford railway station
Railway station
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Thornford railway station serves the village of Thornford, in Dorset, England. It is approximately 3 miles to the south of Yeovil, and 144.35 miles from the zero point at London Paddington.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Clifton Maybank and Longburton.
Clifton Maybank
Hamlet
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Clifton Maybank is a hamlet and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is located about a mile southwest of the village of Bradford Abbas. It is known for Clifton Maybank House, a country house with surviving Tudor fabric. Clifton Maybank is situated 2 miles west of Thornford.
Longburton
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Longburton or Long Burton is a village in Dorset, England, three miles south of Sherborne. It is sited on a narrow outcrop of Cornbrash limestone, at the western end of Blackmore Vale. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 470. Longburton is situated 2½ miles east of Thornford.
Sherborne
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Sherborne is a small town in England. A market town and civil parish in northwest Dorset, it's sited on the River Yeo on the edge of the Blackmore Vale.
Thornford
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Thornford, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.91774° or 50° 55′ 4″ northLongitude
-2.56306° or 2° 33′ 47″ westPopulation
794Elevation
194 feet (59 metres)Open location code
9C2VWC9P+3QOpenStreetMap ID
node 32341406OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
11592802Wikidata ID
Q2612507
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