The Anchor
The Anchor is a pub in Shapwick, East Dorset District, England which is located on West Street. The Anchor is situated nearby to The Charles Bennett Village Green, as well as near Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew and Badbury Rings.
Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew
Church
Photo: Steve Rigg, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew is situated 550 feet west of The Anchor.
Badbury Rings
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort and Scheduled Monument in east Dorset, England. It was in the territory of the Durotriges. In the Roman era a temple was located immediately west of the fort, and there was a Romano-British town known as Vindocladia a short distance to the south-west. Badbury Rings is situated 2 miles northeast of The Anchor.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary the Virgin is situated 1¼ miles southeast of The Anchor.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Spetisbury and Almer.
Spetisbury
Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Spetisbury is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour and the A350, four miles southeast of Blandford Forum. According to the Domesday Book of 1086, the village had 30 households. Spetisbury is situated 1½ miles west of The Anchor.
Almer
Hamlet
Photo: Brendan and Ruth McCartney, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Almer is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sturminster Marshall, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Almer is situated 2½ miles southwest of The Anchor.
Tarrant Rushton
Village
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tarrant Rushton is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. The village is situated in the Tarrant Valley about three miles east of Blandford Forum. Tarrant Rushton is situated 2½ miles north of The Anchor.
The Anchor
- Type: Pub
- Address: 1 West Street, DT11 9LB
- Location: Shapwick, East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.81505° or 50° 48′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.08916° or 2° 5′ 21″ westOpen location code
9C2VRW86+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 671802012OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=pub
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