Charlton Marshall
Encyclopedia
Charlton Marshall is a village in north Dorset
, England
, situated beside the River Stour
on the A350 road two miles south of the market town
Blandford Forum. The village has a population
of 1,150 (2001).
Facilities in Charlton Marshall include a pub "The Charlton Inn". There is no longer a post office in the village. There is however a thriving rural community with plenty of daily activities.
An open section of the Stour Valley Way is used by parents to walk their children to school and for dog walking.
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Dorset
Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, situated beside the River Stour
River Stour, Dorset
The River Stour is a 60.5 mile long river which flows through Wiltshire and Dorset in southern England, and drains into the English Channel. It is sometimes called the Dorset Stour to distinguish it from rivers of the same name...
on the A350 road two miles south of the market town
Market town
Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the medieval period, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city...
Blandford Forum. The village has a population
Population
A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
of 1,150 (2001).
Facilities in Charlton Marshall include a pub "The Charlton Inn". There is no longer a post office in the village. There is however a thriving rural community with plenty of daily activities.
An open section of the Stour Valley Way is used by parents to walk their children to school and for dog walking.
Transport
Charlton Marshall Halt railway station was once a halt on the Somerset and Dorset Joint RailwaySomerset and Dorset Joint Railway
The Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway – almost always referred to as "the S&D" – was an English railway line connecting Bath in north east Somerset and Bournemouth now in south east Dorset but then in Hampshire...
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