Fontmell Magna

Fontmell Magna

Parish church of St Andrew
Fontmell Magna

 Fontmell Magna shown within Dorset
Population 671 
OS grid reference ST866169
Parish Fontmell Magna
District North Dorset
Shire county Dorset
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SHAFTESBURY
Postcode district SP7
Dialling code 01747
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament North Dorset
List of places: UK • England • Dorset

Fontmell Magna is a village in north Dorset, England, situated in the Blackmore Vale under Cranborne Chase on the A350 road five miles south of Shaftesbury and eight miles north of Blandford Forum. The village has a population of 671 (2001). In 1905 Sir Frederick Treves described the church as "one of the handsomest in Dorsetshire".[1]The chalk hill just outside the village to the east, Fontmell Down, is a nature reserve. Fontmell Magna is the birthplace of the orchestral conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC.

References

  1. ^ Treves, Sir F., Highways and Byways in Dorset, Macmillan, 1905, p50

External links

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