Fern Wood
Fern Wood is a forest in Melcombe Horsey, West Dorset District, England. Fern Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Higher Melcombe, as well as near the locality Dorsetshire Gap.Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Andrew, Melcombe Horsey and Bulbarrow Hill.
Bulbarrow Hill
Peak
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hilton and Ansty.
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.
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.
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.
Fern Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Melcombe Horsey, West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.8272° or 50° 49′ 38″ northLongitude
-2.3511° or 2° 21′ 4″ westOpen location code
9C2VRJGX+VHOpenStreetMap ID
way 168654526OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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