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Charlton Marshall
Charlton Marshall shown within Dorset |
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| OS grid reference | ST903038 |
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| District | North Dorset |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BLANDFORD FORUM |
| Postcode district | DT11 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | North Dorset |
| List of places: UK • England • Dorset | |
Charlton Marshall is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the North Dorset administrative district of the county, two miles south of the market town of Blandford Forum. It is sited beside the River Stour on the A350 road. In the 2001 Census the village population was 1,150. The parish church was rebuilt in 1713, although the tower dates from the 15th century.[1] Charlton Marshall Halt railway station was once a halt on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
In 1905 in his book Highways and Byways in Dorset, Sir Frederick Treves tells how the village "was at one time the scene of a lurid drama" involving a Mr. John Truelove, who, after having got into financial difficulties, chose to lock himself in his house, then set fire to it and shoot himself, rather than face a visit from a Sheriff's officer. The man's house "was entirely destroyed". Treves recounts an "unpleasant anatomical inventory" which stated of the affair that "Nothing remained of this unfortunate man but some of his bowels, part of his backbone, and one of his feet in a shoe."[2]
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