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Gillingham

Gillingham is a town and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of , England. It lies on the B3095 and B3081 roads, approximately four miles south of the A303 trunk road and five miles northwest of .
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  • Type: Town with 8,820 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Gillingham, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gillingham railway station and St Mary the Virgin.

Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
serves the town of Gillingham, , England. It is on the West of England Main Line, 105 miles 23 chains down the line from .

Church
Photo: John Barrett, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Mary's Church is the parish church for the town of Gillingham in the Blackmore Vale in the north of . The church is in the Diocese of Salisbury in the Church of England, and part of the Anglican Communion.

Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Milton on Stour and Bugley.

Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a small village in , England. It lies on the River Stour, a mile north of the town of Gillingham. The Church of St Simon and St Jude, built in 1868, is a Grade II listed building.

Hamlet
is a small hamlet in the county of , England. The River Stour runs past the hamlet. It is close to the town of Gillingham.

Gillingham

Latitude
51.0385° or 51° 2′ 19″ north
Longitude
-2.2767° or 2° 16′ 36″ west
Population
8,820
Elevation
240 feet (73 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GLL
Open location code
9C3V2PQF+C8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 43283561
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2648658
Wiki­data ID
Q1234847
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Gillingham” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Gillingham”
  • Basque: “Gillingham (Dorset)”
  • Basque: “Gillingham”
  • Bengali: “গিলিংহ্যাম”
  • Cebuano: “Gillingham”
  • Chinese: “Gillingham”
  • Chinese: “吉林漢姆”
  • Chinese: “吉灵厄姆”
  • Dutch: “Gillingham”
  • French: “Gillingham”
  • German: “Gillingham”
  • Gujarati: “ગિલિંગહામ”
  • Hungarian: “Gillingham (Dorset)”
  • Hungarian: “Gillingham, Dorset”
  • Hungarian: “Gillingham”
  • Irish: “Gillingham”
  • Italian: “Gillingham”
  • Japanese: “ギリンハム”
  • Kannada: “ಗಿಲ್ಲಿಂಗ್ಹ್ಯಾಮ್”
  • Korean: “길링엄”
  • Ladin: “Gillingham”
  • Latin: “Gillingham”
  • Lithuanian: “Giligemas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gillingham (Dorset)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gillingham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gillingham i Dorset”
  • Norwegian: “Gillingham”
  • Persian: “جیلینگهام، دورست”
  • Persian: “جیلینگهام، سامرست”
  • Polish: “Gillingham”
  • Portuguese: “Gillingham”
  • Romanian: “Gillingham, Dorset”
  • Romanian: “Gillingham”
  • Russian: “Гиллингем (Дорсет)”
  • Russian: “Гиллингем”
  • South Azerbaijani: “جیلینقهام، دورست”
  • Spanish: “Gillingham”
  • Swedish: “Gillingham, Dorset”
  • Swedish: “Gillingham”
  • Tamil: “கில்லிங்ஹாம்”
  • Telugu: “గిల్లింగ్హమ్”
  • Turkish: “Gillingham, Dorset”
  • Urdu: “جیلینگھام”
  • Volapük: “Gillingham”
  • Welsh: “Gillingham, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Gillingham”

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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 “Gillingham”. Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0.