Chalbury

Chalbury

All Saints Church, Chalbury
Chalbury
 Chalbury shown within Dorset
Population 140 
OS grid referenceSU018068
Civil parishChalbury
DistrictEast Dorset
Shire countyDorset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town WIMBORNE
Postcode district BH21
Dialling code 01258
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentNorth Dorset
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Coordinates: 50°51′40″N 1°58′30″W / 50.861°N 1.975°W

Chalbury is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the East Dorset administrative district of the county, four miles north of Wimborne Minster and four miles west of Verwood. The village is sited on Chalbury Hill, the view from which has been described as "one of the most fascinating in the county".[1] The Dorset broadcaster Ralph Wightman wrote of the hill and its view:

"Here there is a hill which is only three hundred feet high but which manages to give a wonderful view over woodland, heath, fertile chalk and the distant Isle of Wight. This feeling of immense space seen from relatively small hills is a blessed peculiarity of Dorset."[2]

The village has a population of 140 (2001).

Fiction

In a 2004 adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio is given the (fictitious) title of the Earl of Chalbury.

References

  1. Treves, Sir F., Highways and Byways in Dorset, Macmillan, 1905, p119
  2. Ralph Wightman, Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p. 58

External links

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