Tolpuddle
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Tolpuddle () is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, east of Dorchester, the county town, and west of Poole. The estimated population of the parish in 2013 was 420.
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- Locality
- Tolpuddle
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 452
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- The Church of St John the Evangelist, Tolpuddle - geograph.org.uk - 1592503.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Parish Church of St John the Evangelist
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Tolpuddle
- UK place.map_type
- Dorset
- UK place.population
- 420
- UK place.population_ref
- (2023 estimate)
- UK place.civil_parish
- Burleston and Tolpuddle
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.post_town
- Dorchester
- UK place.postcode_area
- DT
- UK place.postcode_district
- DT2
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- North Dorset
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SY792944
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Tolpuddle Martyrs
- Landmarks
- Governance
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Tolpuddle () is a village in the civil parish of Burleston and Tolpuddle, in Dorset, England, on the River Piddle from which it takes its name, east of Dorchester, the county town, and west of Poole. The estimated population of the parish in 2013 was 420.
==Etymology== Tolpuddle originally bore the name 'Tolpiddle'. The entry for Tolpuddle in the Key to English Place-Names reads:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tolpuddle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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