Abbotsbury
Abbotsbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The village is located around 7+1⁄2 miles west southwest of Dorchester and 1 mile inland from the English Channel coast.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 481 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, England
- Also known as: “Abbotsbury, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens and Abbotsbury Swannery.
Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens
Garden
Photo: Donarreiskoffer, CC BY 4.0.
The Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens is a visitor attraction near the village of Abbotsbury, Dorset, southern England. They are Grade I listed in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
Abbotsbury Swannery
Photo: Mick Knapton, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Abbotsbury Swannery is a colony of nesting mute swans near the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. Located on a 1-hectare site around the Fleet Lagoon protected from the weather of Lyme Bay by Chesil Beach, it is the only managed swannery in the world, and can number over 600 swans with around 150 pairs.
St Catherine’s Chapel
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Catherine's Chapel is a small chapel situated on a hill above the village of Abbotsbury in Dorset, England. It is dedicated to Saint Catherine. It is now in the guardianship of English Heritage and became a Grade I listed building in 1956.
Abbotsbury
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.6663° or 50° 39′ 59″ northLongitude
-2.599° or 2° 35′ 56″ westPopulation
481Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB AOTOpen location code
9C2VMC82+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 29928046OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Abbotsbury” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آبوتسبري”
- Basque: “Abbotsbury”
- Catalan: “Abbotsbury”
- Cebuano: “Abbotsbury”
- Chinese: “Abbotsbury”
- Chinese: “阿伯茲伯裏”
- Chinese: “阿伯茲伯里”
- Chinese: “阿波次伯里”
- Czech: “Abbotsbury”
- Dutch: “Abbotsbury”
- French: “Abbotsbury”
- German: “Abbotsbury”
- Hebrew: “אבוטסברי, דורסט”
- Hebrew: “אבוטסברי”
- Irish: “Abbotsbury”
- Italian: “Abbotsbury”
- Ladin: “Abbotsbury”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Abbotsbury”
- Persian: “ابوتزبری”
- Polish: “Abbotsbury”
- Russian: “Эбботсбери”
- Spanish: “Abbotsbury”
- Swedish: “Abbotsbury”
- Tatar: “Абботсбури”
- Turkish: “Abbotsbury”
- Welsh: “Abbotsbury”
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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 “Abbotsbury”. Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0.