Sedgehill and Semley is a civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of the town of Shaftesbury on the main A350 road. It is in the southwest of Wiltshire and adjoins Dorset. The parish includes the villages of Sedgehill and Semley, and the hamlets of Barkers Hill (in the southeast, towards Donhead St Andrew) and Sem Hill (near Semley). The population of the parish at the 2021 census was 643.[1]
Semley Primary School
The River Sem forms part of the northern boundary of the parish, and is fed by several streams which cross the parish in a generally northeasterly direction.[2] The Sem joins the River Nadder in the northeast corner of the parish near Wardour, and the short eastern boundary of the parish follows the course of the Nadder.
The parish was created in 1986 by combining formerly separate parishes.[3] The parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Councilunitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.
^"Sedgehill and Semley: population statistics, 2021 Census". CityPopulation.de. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
^"Sem". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency. Retrieved 26 December 2019.
^"Sedgehill & Semley". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
Further readingedit
Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H (1987). Crowley, D.A. (ed.). "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 13 pp169-176 – Parishes: Sedgehill". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H (1987). Crowley, D.A. (ed.). "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 13 pp66-79 – Parishes: Semley". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
External linksedit
Sedgehill and Semley Parish Council
Media related to Sedgehill and Semley at Wikimedia Commons
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