Cann
Cann is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is situated on the A350 road in the Dorset administrative district, 1 mile south of Shaftesbury.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 954 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Cann, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Thomas and Shaftesbury School.
Shaftesbury School
School
Shaftesbury School is a coeducational secondary day school located in Shaftesbury in the English county of Dorset. It is a descendant of the former Shaftesbury High School for Girls and Shaftesbury Grammar School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melbury Abbas and Shaftesbury.
Melbury Abbas
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melbury Abbas is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. It is situated at the edge of the Blackmore Vale under the scarp of Cranborne Chase, 2 miles south-southwest of the town of Shaftesbury.
Shaftesbury
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury and 23 miles north-northeast of Dorchester, near the border with Wiltshire.
Compton Abbas
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Compton Abbas is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. It lies 3 miles south of the town of Shaftesbury. It is sited on greensand strata on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, below the chalk downs of Cranborne Chase. Compton Abbas is situated 1½ miles south of Cann.
Cann
- Categories: village, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Cann, North Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.98948° or 50° 59′ 22″ northLongitude
-2.18388° or 2° 11′ 2″ westPopulation
954Elevation
443 feet (135 metres)Open location code
9C2VXRQ8+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 955150591OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
12263108Wikidata ID
Q2865217
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Satellite Map
Discover Cann from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Cann” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Cann”
- Chinese: “Cann”
- Dutch: “Cann”
- French: “Cann”
- Irish: “Cann”
- Ladin: “Cann”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cann”
- Polish: “Cann”
- Swedish: “Cann”
- Turkish: “Cann, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Cann, Dorset”
- “Cann”
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