Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the small River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Its origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre, though many of its buildings date from the 18th century.
Population: 13,266
Latitude: 50° 44' 1.68" N
Longitude: -2° 45' 29.92" W
Pymore is a small village one mile north of Bridport, Dorset. Served by a pub, The Pymore Inn, Pymore has recently[when?] undergone a redevelopment - the site of the old rope factory, around the River Brit, now contains a small development of new ho…
Powerstock Liberty was a liberty comprising part of the parish of Powerstock in Dorset, England.
Portesham was a small railway station on the Abbotsbury branch railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened on 9 November 1885 by the Abbotsbury Railway, it was sited across the fields from Portesham village not far from an underbridg…
Pitcombe Down (grid reference SY585897) is a 13.2 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, notified in 1954.
Pinhay Bay is a bay in Devon, on the south coast of England.
Loders and Bothenhampton Liberty was a liberty in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:
Holy Trinity Church is a Church of England parish church at Bothenhampton, near Bridport in Dorset, England. It was designed and built by the English arts and crafts architect Edward Schroeder Prior in 1887–89. It is a Grade II* listed building.
Frampton Liberty was a liberty in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:
Evershot was a railway station in the county of Dorset in England. Served by trains on what is now known as the Heart of Wessex Line, it was two miles from the village it served, at Holywell, just south of Evershot Tunnel. The station consisted of t…
Eggerton Hundred or Eggardon Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:
Bridport East Street was a railway station on the Bridport Railway in the west of the English county of Dorset. Opened on 11 March 1884, before the extension terminus at West Bay, it was just south of the level crossing on the A35 Dorchester to Honi…
Cruxton is a hamlet in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the West Dorset administrative district of the county, about eight miles north-west of the county town of Dorchester, and one mile south-east of the village of Maiden Newton. It is …
Combpyne railway station was the intermediate station on the Lyme Regis branch line in East Devon, England.
Chalmington is a small hamlet close to the village of Cattistock, in west Dorset, England.
Cattistock Halt railway station was a railway station in the county of Dorset in England. It was served by trains on what is now known as the Heart of Wessex Line.
The earliest written record of Crewkerne is in the 899 will of Alfred the Great. After the Norman conquest is was held by William the Conqueror and in the Domesday Survey of 1086 was described as a royal manor. Crewkerne Castle was possibly a Norman…
The name of the town was Cerden in 1065 and Cerdre in the Domesday Book of 1086. Before the Norman Conquest, Chard was held by the Bishop of Wells. The town's first charter was from King John in 1234. Most of the town was destroyed by fire in 1577, …