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Place details
- Locality
- Thorncombe
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Thorncombe
- UK place.static_image_name
- St Mary's Church Thorncombe - geograph.org.uk - 410088.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- St Mary's Church, Thorncombe
- UK place.population
- 687
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Dorset
- UK place.post_town
- CHARD
- UK place.postcode_district
- TA20
- UK place.postcode_area
- TA
- UK place.dial_code
- 01460
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST376033
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Description
- Geography
- History
- Boundary changes
- Notable residents
- Politics
- Church
- References
- External links
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Thorncombe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It was historically, until 1844, an exclave of Devon. It lies five miles (8 km) south east of the town of Chard in neighbouring Somerset. Thorncombe is situated close to the borders of both Somerset and Devon. In the 2011 census the population of the civil parish was 687.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thorncombe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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