Dorset
West Dorset District
Dorchester

Poundbury

Poundbury is an experimental urban extension on the western outskirts of in the county of , England. The development is led by the Duchy of Cornwall, and had the keen endorsement of King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Maiden Castle and Poundbury Hill.

Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is an Iron Age hillfort 1.6 mi southwest of , in the English county of . Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age.

Archaeological site
is the site of a scheduled Prehistoric and Roman archaeological remains and includes evidence of a Neolithic settlement, a substantial Bronze Age occupation site and an Iron Age hillfort.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dorchester West is one of two railway stations that serve the town of in , England, the other being . It is managed by Great Western Railway, which also operates all services that stop here.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Charlton Down and Muckleford.

Village
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a new village in , England, situated approximately 4 miles north of the county town . It lies within the civil parish of . is situated 2½ miles north of Poundbury.

Hamlet
Bradford Peverell is a and civil parish in the county of , 2 miles north-west of the county town . It is sited by the south bank of the River Frome, among low chalk hills on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs. is situated 3 miles northwest of Poundbury.

Village
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is a hamlet at the confluence of Sydling Water and the River Frome in the western part of the civil parish of . The Great Western Railway opened and Frampton railway station and in 1857 and British Railways closed the station in 1966. is situated 3 miles northwest of Poundbury.

Poundbury

Latitude
50.71243° or 50° 42′ 45″ north
Longitude
-2.46603° or 2° 27′ 58″ west
Population
3,500
Elevation
335 feet (102 metres)
Open location code
9C2VPG6M+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 761867827
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
12212996
Wiki­data ID
Q1928413
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Poundbury” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Poundbury”
  • Catalan: “Poundbury”
  • Chinese: “庞德伯里”
  • Czech: “Poundbury”
  • Dutch: “Poundbury”
  • Esperanto: “Poundbury”
  • Finnish: “Poundbury”
  • French: “Poundbury”
  • German: “Poundbury”
  • Italian: “Poundbury”
  • Japanese: “パウンドベリー”
  • Latin: “Poundbury”
  • Latvian: “Paundberija”
  • Limburgan: “Poundbury”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Poundbury”
  • Picard: “Poundbury”
  • Polish: “Poundbury”
  • Portuguese: “Poundbury”
  • Russian: “Паундбери”
  • Spanish: “Poundbury”
  • Swedish: “Poundbury”
  • Turkish: “Poundbury”
  • Ukrainian: “Паундбері”
  • Vlaams: “Poundbury”
  • Walloon: “Poundbury”
  • Welsh: “Poundbury”

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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 “Poundbury”. Photo: Steinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.