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Also known as Netherbury, Dorset

Netherbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, by the small River Brit, south of Beaminster and north of Bridport. The A3066 road connecting those towns lies 0.5 miles to the east.

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Place details

Locality
Melplash
Region
England
Country
United Kingdom
Population
343

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Key facts

UK place.official_name
Netherbury
UK place.country
England
UK place.region
South West England
UK place.static_image_name
Netherbury, parish church of St. Mary - geograph.org.uk - 519517.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption
Parish church of St Mary
UK place.population
1314
UK place.os_grid_reference
SY470993
UK place.post_town
BRIDPORT
UK place.postcode_area
DT
UK place.postcode_district
DT6
UK place.constituency_westminster
West Dorset
UK place.unitary_england
Dorset
UK place.lieutenancy_england
Dorset

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Encyclopedic overview

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Netherbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, by the small River Brit, south of Beaminster and north of Bridport. The A3066 road connecting those towns lies 0.5 miles to the east.

==Population== In the 2011 census the parish, including the villages of Melplash and Salway Ash, and the small settlements of Atrim, Oxbridge, Waytown, North and South Bowood, Wooth, Silkhay, Mangerton, Whitecross, Filford, Dottery, Hincknowle and Loscombe, had a population of 1,314. Netherbury is within an electoral ward that bears its name and stretches south to the edge of Bridport. The ward population was 2,080.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Netherbury” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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