River Cerne

Coordinates: 50°50′15″N 2°29′02″W / 50.837501°N 2.48401°W / 50.837501; -2.48401

The River Cerne at its source in Minterne Magna

The River Cerne is a ten mile long river in Dorset, England, which rises in the Chalk hills of the Dorset Downs at Minterne Magna, between High Stoy and Dogbury Hill, flows down a valley through Cerne Abbas and Charminster, and flows into the River Frome in Dorchester.

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