Kingston is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset in southern England. Kingston is situated about two miles south of Corfe Castle...
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Church of St James is the parish church for the village of Kingston, located on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. The church is a notable example of the Gothic...
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Purbeck Marble is a fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England. It is a variety of Purbeck stone...
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Devon Kingston, Staverton, Devon Kingston, North Dorset, a hamlet in Hazelbury Bryan Kingston, Purbeck, Dorset Kingston upon Hull (commonly just Hull),...
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Purbeck was a local government district in Dorset, England. The district was named after the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula that forms a large proportion...
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Iwerne Minster Kimmeridge, Kings Park, King's Stag, Kingston (North Dorset), Kingston (Purbeck), Kingston Russell, Kington Magna, Kinson, Knighton Heath,...
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Swanage (category Isle of Purbeck)
south east of Dorset, England. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns, approximately 6+1⁄4 miles (10 km) south of Poole...
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The following is a list of churches in Purbeck, Dorset. St James's Church, Kingston, Purbeck Lady St Mary Church, Wareham St Martin's Church, Wareham...
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Corfe Castle (village) (category Isle of Purbeck)
of the Isle of Purbeck and has an area of 14+1⁄2 square miles (37.45 km2). To the south, it includes the smaller village of Kingston and a section of...
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Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, on the south coast of England. The hill Swyre Head lies about 2 kilometres (1 mi) southwest of the village Kingston, about 5...
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Dorset in 1939. He was also Lord High Admiral of Purbeck, a ceremonial role. Bankes spent his life at Kingston Lacy, “running the estate with consummate skill”...
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Tyneham (category Isle of Purbeck)
district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. In 2001 the civil parish had a population of 0. The civil parish was abolished...
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De La Warr, who fought at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, is made from Purbeck Marble and dominates the south aisle. It includes a wide selection of stained...
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Joseph Kellaway (category People from Purbeck District)
Wrangler (right) by Sir Oswald Brierly, 1855 Born 1 September 1824 Kingston, Purbeck, Dorset Died 2 October 1880 (aged 56) Chatham, Kent Buried Maidstone...
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Corfe Castle (category Isle of Purbeck)
fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror...
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35°W / 50.88; -02.35 ST7509 Kingston (Purbeck) Dorset 50°37′N 2°04′W / 50.61°N 02.07°W / 50.61; -02.07 SY9579 Kingston East Lothian 56°01′N 2°44′W...
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chantry chapel in a tomb of Purbeck marble. There were formerly monumental brasses to him and his wife, Elizabeth. Kingston's first two marriages were to...
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Collingbourne Kingston is a village and civil parish about 8 miles (13 km) south of the market town of Marlborough in Wiltshire, England. The village,...
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Church Knowle (category Isle of Purbeck)
Church Knowle is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset in the south of England. Church Knowle village is situated...
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Worth Matravers (category Isle of Purbeck)
around a pond, which is a regular feature on postcards of the Isle of Purbeck.[citation needed] The civil parish stretches from the coast northwards...
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St Michael, inside the west wall of the south aisle, and the restored Purbeck Marble font. St Michael's was the local church of novelist and poet Thomas...
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of the Poole suburb of Hamworthy. It is the second largest town in the Purbeck Hills. The town is built around a road junction where the Blandford to...
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Lieutenant of the Isle of Purbeck. On 14 July 1714, Bankes was attempting to lift a blunderbuss hanging on his bedroom wall at Kingston Lacy when it discharged...
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Langton Matravers (category Isle of Purbeck)
Matravers (/məˈtrævərz/) is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in the south of England. It is situated about...
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Elections to Purbeck District Council were held on 1 May 2003. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall...
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Wilts & Dorset (redirect from Purbeck Breezer)
subsidiary Go South Coast. Coach companies Tourist Coaches, Levers and Kingston Coaches were purchased and consolidated under the Tourist Coaches name;...
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number of long distance footpaths and cycle ways passing through it: the Purbeck cycle way, Route 2 (Sustrans), the Frome valley trail, the Jubilee trail...
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Studland and Godlingston Heath National Nature Reserve (category Isle of Purbeck)
961 The Studland and Godlingston Heaths NNR is located on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It borders Studland Bay on the south side...
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Wareham, Dorset (category Purbeck District)
Nature Reserve. About four miles (7 km) to the south is a chalk ridge, the Purbeck Hills which faces the Isle of Wight to the east, and eight miles (12 km)...
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Studland (category Isle of Purbeck)
Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. The village is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town of Swanage...
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