Motcombe Meadows
Motcombe Meadows is a recreation area in Motcombe, North Dorset District, England. Motcombe Meadows is situated nearby to Motcombe Post Office, as well as near Church of St Mary.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St Mary and Shaftesbury Abbey.
Church of St Mary
Church
Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St Mary is situated 2,800 feet southeast of Motcombe Meadows.
Shaftesbury Abbey
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Shaftesbury Abbey was an abbey that housed nuns in Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was founded in about 888, and dissolved in 1539 during the English Reformation by the order of Thomas Cromwell, minister to King Henry VIII. Shaftesbury Abbey is situated 2 miles southeast of Motcombe Meadows.
Port Regis School
School
Photo: David Wyatt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Port Regis School is a co-educational preparatory school located in 140 acres of parkland on the Dorset-Wiltshire border in southern England, situated between the towns of Shaftesbury and Gillingham. Port Regis School is situated 1 mile south of Motcombe Meadows.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sedgehill and Shaftesbury.
Sedgehill
Village
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sedgehill is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Sedgehill and Semley, in the southwest of the county of Wiltshire, England. It lies to the west of the A350 primary route, about 3+1⁄4 miles north of Shaftesbury, Dorset. Sedgehill is situated 2 miles northeast of Motcombe Meadows.
Shaftesbury
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shaftesbury is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is on the A30 road, 20 miles west of Salisbury and 23 miles north-northeast of Dorchester, near the border with Wiltshire.
Gillingham
Photo: Simon Burchell, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gillingham is a town and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England. It lies on the B3095 and B3081 roads, approximately four miles south of the A303 trunk road and five miles northwest of Shaftesbury.
Motcombe Meadows
- Type: Recreation area
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Motcombe, North Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.03296° or 51° 1′ 59″ northLongitude
-2.22265° or 2° 13′ 22″ westOpen location code
9C3V2QMG+5WOpenStreetMap ID
way 561294901OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=recreation_ground
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