Dorset
West Dorset District
Melcombe Horsey

Melcombe Bingham

Melcombe Horsey is a civil parish in the county of in . 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.
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Photo: Clive Perrin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
  • Type: Village
  • Description: village in Dorset, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Melcombe Bingham, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of St Andrew, Melcombe Horsey and Parish Church of All Saints.

Church
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Church
Photo: Bashereyre, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Peak
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a 274 metres hill near , five miles west of and ten miles north of in , . The chalk hill is part of the scarp of Dorset Downs, which form the western end of the Southern England Chalk Formation. is situated 2 miles northeast of Melcombe Bingham.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ansty and Dorsetshire Gap.

Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the civil parish of , in , England, north of and west of . It consists of the settlements of Higher , Lower , Pleck and Cross.

Locality
Photo: Carl Whitehouse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , also called the Dorset Gap, is an important, historic track junction - once the hub of central in southern - and a well known beauty spot and magnet for ramblers.

Hamlet
Photo: PaleCloudedWhite, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village and civil parish in the county of in southern . 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 .

Melcombe Bingham

Latitude
50.82242° or 50° 49′ 21″ north
Longitude
-2.33867° or 2° 20′ 19″ west
Elevation
453 feet (138 metres)
Open location code
9C2VRMC6+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30357660
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
13276442
Wiki­data ID
Q14956370
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Welsh—“Melcombe Bingham” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Melcombe Bingham”
  • French: “Melcombe Bingham”
  • Irish: “Melcombe Bingham”
  • Welsh: “Melcombe Bingham”

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 “Melcombe Bingham”. Photo: Clive Perrin, CC BY-SA 2.0.