Bingham’s Melcombe

Bingham’s Melcombe is a hamlet in Melcombe Horsey, West Dorset District, England. Bingham’s Melcombe is situated nearby to the village Melcombe Bingham, as well as near Ansty.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parish Church of All Saints and Bulbarrow Hill.

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 north of Bingham’s Melcombe.

Abbey Church of St Mary, St Sansom and St Branwalader

Church

Photo: Marilyn Peddle, CC BY 2.0.

Abbey Church of St Mary, St Sansom and St Branwalader is situated 1½ miles east of Bingham’s Melcombe.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Melcombe Bingham and Ansty.

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.

Ansty

Village

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

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.

Bingham’s Melcombe

Type: Hamlet
Category: locality
Location: Melcombe Horsey, West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.81865° or 50° 49′ 7″ north

Longitude

-2.32597° or 2° 19′ 34″ west

Elevation

374 feet (114 metres)

Open location code

9C2VRM9F+FJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1470042894

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13283031

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