Towns & cities · South East England
Ashmore
Ashmore — village in Dorset, England, UK.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 3 h–6 h
- Free entry
- Family-friendly
- Dog-friendly
About
Ashmore is a town, city, village or settlement in the United Kingdom. Recent population estimates put it at around 176 people. Wikidata describes it as: "village in Dorset, England, UK". Coordinates: 50.9598°, -2.1254°.
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Protected designations
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: River Avon System SSSI
- Site of Special Scientific Interest: Fontmell and Melbury Downs SSSI
- Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Cranborne Chase & West Wiltshire Downs
Designations sourced from Natural England open data under OGL v3.
From the Wikipedia article
Ashmore is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, 20 miles (32 kilometres) southwest of Salisbury. In the 2021 census the parish had a population of 176. It has a church and several stone cottages and farms, many with thatched roofs. The village is the highest in the county. It is centred on a circular pond, or "mere", which gave the village its original name of "Ash-mere". There are grounds for believing Ashmore to be a Romano-British village which has survived without a break to the present day.
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Background
History
Three round barrows have been found in the parish: two barrows south of the village near Well Bottom, and one west of the village near the boundary with the village of Fontmell Magna; this latter barrow was excavated in the 19th century and bones were recovered. The Roman road from Bath to Badbury Rings passes through the east of the parish. it had 24 households, 7 ploughlands and 10 acre of meadow. It was in Cranborne Hundred and had a value of £15 to the lord of the manor, who was King William. Until 1859, Ashmore had an open field system; the three fields—North Field to the north, and Sandpit Fields and Broadridge to the south—were roughly equal in size and covered an area of 380 acre.…
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- Coordinates
- 50.9598, -2.1254
- District
- Dorset
- Parish
- Ashmore
- Postcode
- SP5 5AD
- Parliamentary constituency
- North Dorset
- Population
- 176
Sources
- wikidata: Q1771529 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Ashmore (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Ashmore, Dorset, 2015 (a).JPG (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Ashmore?
- Ashmore is in South-East England, United Kingdom (postcode SP5 5AD), in the parish of Ashmore.
- Is Ashmore a protected site?
- Yes — Ashmore is part of the River Avon System SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest and the Fontmell and Melbury Downs SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest.
- Is Ashmore free to visit?
- Yes, Ashmore is free to enter.
- How do I get to Ashmore?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode SP5 5AD. It sits within the North Dorset parliamentary constituency.