Ansty
Ansty is a village in the civil parish of Hilton, in Dorset, England, north of Cheselbourne and west of Milton Abbas. It consists of the settlements of Higher Ansty, Lower Ansty, Pleck and Ansty Cross.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Ansty, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Andrew, Melcombe Horsey and Parish Church of All Saints.
Bulbarrow Hill
Peak
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bulbarrow Hill is a 274 metres hill near Woolland, five miles west of Blandford Forum and ten miles north of Dorchester in Dorset, England. The chalk hill is part of the scarp of Dorset Downs, which form the western end of the Southern England Chalk Formation. Bulbarrow Hill is situated 2 miles northeast of Ansty.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melcombe Bingham and Hilton.
Melcombe Bingham
Village
Photo: Clive Perrin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Melcombe Horsey is a civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It contains the small settlements of Melcombe Bingham, Bingham's Melcombe and Higher Melcombe, the last being the site of the deserted village of Melcombe Horsey.
Hilton
Hamlet
Photo: PaleCloudedWhite, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hilton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is sited at an elevation of 135 metres in a small valley which drains chalk hills in the eastern part of the Dorset Downs, approximately 8 miles west-southwest of the town of Blandford Forum.
Dorsetshire Gap
Locality
Photo: Carl Whitehouse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Dorsetshire Gap, also called the Dorset Gap, is an important, historic track junction - once the hub of central Dorset in southern England - and a well known beauty spot and magnet for ramblers.
Ansty
- Category: locality
- Location: Hilton, North Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.82425° or 50° 49′ 27″ northLongitude
-2.33687° or 2° 20′ 13″ westElevation
423 feet (129 metres)Open location code
9C2VRMF7+P7OpenStreetMap ID
node 722734249OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Ansty” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Ansty”
- Irish: “Ansty”
- Polish: “Ansty (Dorset)”
- Polish: “Ansty”
- Welsh: “Ansty, Dorset”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Lower Ansty and Bingham’s Melcombe.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Aldermore and Ansty Post Office.
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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 “Ansty”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.