Gussage All Saints is a village and parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It nestles within the East Dorset administrative district of the county, about 8 miles north-east of the town of Blandford Forum. It is sited by the side of a small stream in a shallow valley on the lower dip slope of Cranborne Chase. Ackling Dyke, a disused Roman road, crosses the valley to the northwest, and forms the parish boundary at that point.
To the south of the village lies an Iron Age settlement excavated in 1972 by Dr G. J. Wainwright, of the Department of the Environment. The settlement is formed by an enclosure that is roughly circular in plan and some 3 acres in extent, with a single entrance in the east defined by two pairs of flanking antennae ditches.[2]
gussage, saints, village, parish, county, dorset, southern, england, nestles, within, east, dorset, administrative, district, county, about, miles, north, east, town, blandford, forum, sited, side, small, stream, shallow, valley, lower, slope, cranborne, chase. Gussage All Saints is a village and parish in the county of Dorset in southern England It nestles within the East Dorset administrative district of the county about 8 miles north east of the town of Blandford Forum It is sited by the side of a small stream in a shallow valley on the lower dip slope of Cranborne Chase Ackling Dyke a disused Roman road crosses the valley to the northwest and forms the parish boundary at that point Gussage All SaintsGussage All Saints ChurchGussage All SaintsLocation within DorsetOS grid referenceST998108Civil parishGussage All SaintsDistrictEast DorsetShire countyDorsetRegionSouth WestCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townWIMBORNEPostcode districtBH21Dialling code01258PoliceDorsetFireDorset and WiltshireAmbulanceSouth WesternUK ParliamentNorth DorsetList of places UK England Dorset 50 53 49 N 2 00 14 W 50 897 N 2 004 W 50 897 2 004 Coordinates 50 53 49 N 2 00 14 W 50 897 N 2 004 W 50 897 2 004The village church dates mostly from the early 14th century 1 Since 2001 The Ecclesiastical Parish of Gussage All Saints has been one of ten Ecclesiastical Parishes which form The Chase Benefice under its first incumbent the Reverend Dr Michael Foster The other Parishes are Gussage St Michael Farnham Chettle Tarrant Gunville Tarrant Hinton Tarrant Monkton Tarrant Rushton Tarrant Keyneston and Tollard Royal in Wiltshire To the south of the village lies an Iron Age settlement excavated in 1972 by Dr G J Wainwright of the Department of the Environment The settlement is formed by an enclosure that is roughly circular in plan and some 3 acres in extent with a single entrance in the east defined by two pairs of flanking antennae ditches 2 References Edit Gant R Dorset Villages Hale 1980 p35 Wainwright GJ 1973 The Iron Age settlement of Gussage All Saints PDF Antiquity 47 186 109 ISSN 0003 598X Archived from the original PDF on 6 July 2011 External links Edit Media related to Gussage All Saints at Wikimedia Commons 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 Gussage All Saints amp oldid 1052310866, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
