Henbury, Dorset

Henbury

Henbury Cottages on the A31
Henbury
Henbury shown within Dorset
OS grid reference SY960985
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town WIMBORNE
Postcode district BH21
Dialling code 01258
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament

Henbury is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, England. It lies on the A31 road.

Henbury House is a classical Georgian house built in 1770.[1] In the 19th century the estate was held by the Parke family. In the 1870s two members of the family emigrated to Australia and founded Henbury Station,[2] a cattle station some 140 km south of Alice Springs, near where the Henbury Crater was discovered in 1899.

References

  1. ↑ East Dorset County Council: Areas of Great Landscape Vale (June 1997)
  2. ↑ Peter Forrest, Henbury, in the Centralian Advocate, 1984
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