Motcombe
Template:Short description Template:DMCA Template:DMCA
Template:Short descriptionPage Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Infobox UK place/styles.css has no content.
| Motcombe | |
|---|---|
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. The Street, Motcombe | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/United Kingdom Dorset" does not exist. | |
| Script error: No such module "Infobox mapframe". | |
| Population | 1,474 (2011) |
| OS grid reference | [[[:Template:Ordnance Survey url]] ST8526] |
| Civil parish | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.
|
| Unitary authority | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Ceremonial county | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Region | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
| Country | Script error: No such module "Link if exists". |
| Crown dependency | Script error: No such module "Link if exists". |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | SHAFTESBURY |
| Postcode district | SP7 |
| Dialling code | 01747 |
| Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content. | |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| UK Parliament | Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content. |
Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Motcombe /ˈmɒtkəm/ is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England. It lies about two miles (three kilometres) north of Shaftesbury. It is sited on Kimmeridge clay soil[1] beneath hills at the edge of the Blackmore Vale. The parish is one of the largest in Dorset.[2] In the 2011 census the parish had 611 dwellings,[3] 564 households and a population of 1,474.[4]
In 1905 Sir Frederick Treves described Motcombe as "a hamlet of gardens at the foot of the hill" and wrote of the village houses that they "are facing all ways, as if they were shy of the road or were undecided which way to turn."[5] The parish church of St Mary was rebuilt in 1846, although its font dates from Norman times.[2]
On the south-west edge of the village is Motcombe Park. Within the park is Motcombe House, built in 1893 in Tudor style,[2] and now home to Port Regis, a large private preparatory school.
Motcombe is within the Motcombe and Ham electoral ward, which also covers Ham, a neighbourhood of Gillingham to the west. The ward's population in the 2011 census was 3,216.[6] The nearest railway station is at Gillingham, although the line itself cuts through the outskirts of the village.
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ralph Wightman (1983). Portrait of Dorset (4 ed.). Robert Hale Ltd. p. 17. ISBN 0-7090-0844-9.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.North Dorset District Council (c. 1983). North Dorset District Official Guide. Home Publishing Co. Ltd. p. 43.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Area: Motcombe (Parish). Dwellings, Household Spaces and Accommodation Type, 2011 (KS401EW)". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Area: Motcombe (Parish), Key Figures for 2011 census: Key Statistics". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 4 February 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sir Frederick Treves (1905). Highways and Byways in Dorset. Macmillan and Co. Ltd. p. 16.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Motcombe and Ham". ukcensusdata.com. Retrieved 28 February 2015.
External links
Page Module:Side box/styles.css has no content.Page Template:Sister project/styles.css has no content.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.
