Chalbury is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies on the southern edge of Cranborne Chase within the East Dorset administrative district of the county, four miles north of Wimborne Minster and four miles west of Verwood. The village is sited on Chalbury Hill, the view from which has been described as "one of the most fascinating in the county".[1] The Dorset broadcaster Ralph Wightman wrote of the hill and its view:
"Here there is a hill which is only three hundred feet high but which manages to give a wonderful view over woodland, heath, fertile chalk and the distant Isle of Wight. This feeling of immense space seen from relatively small hills is a blessed peculiarity of Dorset."[2]
chalbury, village, english, county, dorset, lies, southern, edge, cranborne, chase, within, east, dorset, administrative, district, county, four, miles, north, wimborne, minster, four, miles, west, verwood, village, sited, hill, view, from, which, been, descri. Chalbury is a village in the English county of Dorset It lies on the southern edge of Cranborne Chase within the East Dorset administrative district of the county four miles north of Wimborne Minster and four miles west of Verwood The village is sited on Chalbury Hill the view from which has been described as one of the most fascinating in the county 1 The Dorset broadcaster Ralph Wightman wrote of the hill and its view ChalburyAll Saints Church ChalburyChalburyLocation within DorsetPopulation140 OS grid referenceSU018068Civil parishChalburyDistrictEast DorsetShire countyDorsetRegionSouth WestCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWIMBORNEPostcode districtBH21Dialling code01258PoliceDorsetFireDorset and WiltshireAmbulanceSouth WesternUK ParliamentNorth DorsetList of places UK England Dorset 50 51 40 N 1 58 30 W 50 861 N 1 975 W 50 861 1 975 Coordinates 50 51 40 N 1 58 30 W 50 861 N 1 975 W 50 861 1 975 Here there is a hill which is only three hundred feet high but which manages to give a wonderful view over woodland heath fertile chalk and the distant Isle of Wight This feeling of immense space seen from relatively small hills is a blessed peculiarity of Dorset 2 The village has a population of 140 2001 Journalist Mary Frances Billington was born at Chalbury in 1862 while her father was the rector at All Saints Church 3 References Edit Treves Sir F Highways and Byways in Dorset Macmillan 1905 p119 Ralph Wightman Portrait of Dorset Hale 1983 p 58 Fred Hunter Billington Mary Frances 1862 1925 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 External links Edit Media related to Chalbury at Wikimedia Commons Census data Photographs and Information on Chalbury Church from Strolling Guides This Dorset location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Chalbury amp oldid 1084490534, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
