Beacon Plantation
Beacon Plantation is a locality in Puddletown, West Dorset District, England. Beacon Plantation is situated nearby to the locality Beacon Corner, as well as near Stafford Park Copse.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thomas Hardy’s Cottage and Athelhampton Hall.
Thomas Hardy’s Cottage
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels Under the Greenwood Tree and Far from the Madding Crowd —when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford.
Woodsford Castle
Castle
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodsford Castle is situated 2 miles south of Beacon Plantation.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woodsford and Tolpuddle.
Woodsford
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woodsford is a village and civil parish beside the River Frome, Dorset, England, about 4 miles east of the county town Dorchester. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the parish population is 80. Woodsford is situated 2½ miles southeast of Beacon Plantation.
Tolpuddle
Village
Photo: Gillian Moy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tolpuddle is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, 8 miles east of Dorchester, the county town, and 12 miles west of Poole. Tolpuddle is situated 3 miles east of Beacon Plantation.
Affpuddle
Hamlet
Photo: Ydigresse, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Affpuddle is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, in the Dorset district of the ceremonial county of Dorset, England, 9 miles east of Dorchester. Affpuddle is situated 3½ miles east of Beacon Plantation.
Beacon Plantation
- Type: Locality
- Location: Puddletown, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.74268° or 50° 44′ 34″ northLongitude
-2.35998° or 2° 21′ 36″ westOpen location code
9C2VPJVR+32OpenStreetMap ID
node 6200827941OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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