Higher Coombe
Higher Coombe is a locality in Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, England. Higher Coombe is situated nearby to the locality Middle Coombe, as well as near Lower Coombe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St John the Baptist and Shaftesbury Abbey.
Shaftesbury Abbey
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Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII. Shaftesbury Abbey is situated 1½ miles west of Higher Coombe.
Shaftesbury Town Hall
Town hall
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Shaftesbury Town Hall is a municipal building in the High Street, Shaftesbury, Dorset, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Shaftsbury Town Council, is a Grade II listed building. Shaftesbury Town Hall is situated 1½ miles west of Higher Coombe.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ludwell and Shaftesbury.
Ludwell
Village
Ludwell is a small village in south Wiltshire, England, approximately 3 miles east of the Dorset town of Shaftesbury. It lies within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, on the A30 Salisbury-Shaftesbury road.
Shaftesbury
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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.
Melbury Abbas
Village
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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. Melbury Abbas is situated 2 miles south of Higher Coombe.
Higher Coombe
- Type: Locality
- Location: Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.00375° or 51° 0′ 14″ northLongitude
-2.15913° or 2° 9′ 33″ westElevation
571 feet (174 metres)Open location code
9C3V2R3R+F8GeoNames ID
13275890
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