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Charlton Marshall works well as a base: 10 minutes from Pimperne, 25km from Lulworth Cove.
Charlton Marshall is in England, United Kingdom, with about 1,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Pimperne, about 5 km away.
Charlton Marshall is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Dorset administrative district, on the A350 road 2 miles (3 kilometres) south of the market town of Blandford Forum. It is sited on a river terrace above the floodplain of the River Stour, with most of the land in theRead more
parish stretching south-west over chalk hills. In the 2011 census the number of dwellings recorded within the parish was 513 and the population was 1,156.
Within the parish boundary is evidence of the sites of Anglo-Saxon burial mounds, and human habitation in the parish can be dated back at least a thousand years. Next to the river were three earlier settlements, which influenced the elongated layout of the current village. The parish church was rebuilt in 1713 and restored in 1895, although the tower dates from the 15th century. Charlton Marshall Halt railway station was once a halt on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway.
Within the last half century Charlton Marshall has grown considerably, and there are now more than five times as many homes in the village as there were in the middle of the 19th century. A proposal to jointly bypass Charlton Marshall and neighbouring Spetisbury has never been realised.
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Within an hour or so of Charlton Marshall: Gold Hill, Shaftesbury (19 km), Bournemouth Beach (23 km), Corfe Castle (23 km), Cerne Abbas Giant (23 km).
The nearest famous roads are Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, Military Road, Isle of Wight and Cheddar Gorge Road (B3135).
Charlton Marshall is in England, United Kingdom, about 5 km from Pimperne.
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photogenic
Steep cobbled street lined with thatched cottages, plunging past the buttressed walls of Shaftesbury Abbey with views over Blackmore Vale. Made famous by Ridley Scott's 1973 Hovis bread advert.
19 km · about 20 min drive
beach
A seven-mile stretch of golden sand along the Dorset coast, one of England's most popular seaside destinations.
23 km · about 25 min drive
castle
Atmospheric ruins of a thousand-year-old royal castle perched on a hilltop, dramatically slighted during the English Civil War.
23 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
A 55 m chalk hill figure of a club-wielding naked man above a Dorset village, now dated to the late Saxon period.
23 km · about 25 min drive
natural wonder
Almost perfectly circular cove formed by the sea eroding through Portland limestone, creating one of the world's finest examples of coastal geology.
25 km · about 30 min drive
racetrack
A 1,000-yard chalk downland hillclimb in Wiltshire with a fearsome uphill Karousel corner, run by enthusiasts since 1967 and one of the best places in Britain to watch sprint cars up close.
25 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
A small collapsing cove beside Lulworth, showing the tightly folded Lulworth Crumple in its cliff face.
25 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
Iconic chalk sea stacks marking the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast, standing as sentinels against the English Channel.
26 km · about 30 min drive
April to October
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