Bloxworth House is a Grade I listed manor house just northwest of the village of Bloxworth in Dorset, England. It was built in 1608 by George Savage and...
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and a population of 200. Bloxworth Heath is home to Woolsbarrow Hillfort. To the northwest of the village is Bloxworth House, the first brick building...
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century, Jocelyn Pickard, a barrister from Lincoln's Inn, moved to Bloxworth House in Dorset and married a Dorsetshire heiress; Henry William Pickard...
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(Brewhouse and Ice House at Bloxworth House, Approximately 30 M South of House) 1120570 Upload Photo Pump House at Bloxworth House, Approximately 50 Metres...
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and his wife Ann. In 1788 she married Thomas Pickard (1755–1830) of Bloxworth House, Dorset; her sister Frances (1760–1823), meanwhile, married Henry Bankes...
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George Alexander Lane, of Bloxworth House, Wareham 1917 Freeman Roper, of Forde Abbey, Chard 1918 Alban James Woodroffe, of Ware House, Lyme Regis 1919 William...
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Baptist) 1170978 More images Bloxworth House, including the attached wall and gate piers on east Bloxworth Country house 1608 20 November 1959 SY8793494961...
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Rocks behind a ruined house Tyneham St Mary's Church - south transept Tyneham School House Tyneham houses - the shepherd's house, Post Office and telephone...
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Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Rev. George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed its name...
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other bays and beaches nearby. The building of coastguard cottages, which housed the customs officers still stand above the cove. Lulworth at one point had...
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recorded in 1268. It probably derives from the Old English: ærn meaning a house or building. Alternatively, it may derive from Old English: hær (dative...
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is held annually at a farm near the village. Leeson House, a Grade II listed 19th-century house, is a field studies centre located in the village, it...
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17th-century mansion called Charborough House or Charborough Park stands in an extensive deer park, and near the house is the small parish church, also dedicated...
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the River Frome, halfway between Dorchester and Wareham. Woolbridge Manor House, a 17th-century building, is a prominent feature just outside the village...
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villagers deserted the original village, sited around the church and manor house, and resettled further up the hill.[citation needed] The remaining female...
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John Trenchard (politician) (category People of the Rye House Plot)
April 1695 at Kensington, London, of tuberculosis and he is buried at Bloxworth, Dorset. Whig Junto "TRENCHARD, Sir John (1649-95), of Lytchett Matravers...
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Newton Manor House on the High Street was a 17th-century farmhouse, remodelled in the 18th and 19th centuries. For some centuries the house and estate belonged...
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Flint working and potting continued throughout the Bronze Age. The first house discovered dates to the mid 15th century BCE. Archaeological evidence exists...
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Alderney and Canford Heath. The path lies parallel to the stream and joins Bloxworth Road at the other side. As the name suggests, Bourne Valley is the start...
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the cross is a defunct village pump, bearing the village's arms. Mortons House Hotel, a Grade II* listed building, was built in 1590 and is one of the...
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Return to the Gate (1975) The Dark Side of the Moon (1977) Bloxworth Blue (1984) The Magician's House quartet The Steps Up the Chimney (1990) The Door in the...
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era, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Affapidela, having a manor house belonging to the Abbot of Cerne. After the Dissolution the village became...
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Dorset. It is within the Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency of the House of Commons. Between 1979 and 2020, Upton was represented in the European...
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a population of 425, though many of the houses in the village are holiday homes, second homes, or guest houses, and the village's population varies depending...
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By 1929 forty new cottages had been built to house the estate workers. His vision was that every house would have an inside toilet and at least a quarter...
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November 1458 a prebend of Salisbury, and by 1461 he was also rector of Bloxworth in Dorset and archdeacon of Norwich. In 1459 the Duke of York, the Earl...
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Nicholas Blandford Forum: St Peter & St Paul Blandford St Mary: St Mary Bloxworth: St Andrew Charlton Marshall: St Mary the Virgin Chettle: St Mary Durweston:...
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from barn swallows (which often nest in this tunnel) to a UK rarity, the Bloxworth snout moth, these spaces provide the ideal habitat, and a perfect place...
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novel Mr Weston's Good Wine and other works. It was at Theodore Powys's house that novelist Sylvia Townsend Warner first met the poet Valentine Ackland...
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on the cliffs west of Swanage. It comprises limestone cottages and farm houses and is built around a pond, which is a regular feature on postcards of the...
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