Pimperne is a village in north Dorset

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

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, situated on Cranborne Chase

Cranborne Chase

Cranborne Chase is a Chalk plateau in central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. The plateau is part of the English Chalk Formation and is adjacent to Salisbury Plain and the West Wiltshire Downs in the north, the Dorset Downs to the south west and the...

 two miles north east of Blandford Forum. The village has a population

Population

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 of 995 .

The first records of Pimperne go back to the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

Domesday Book , now held at The National Archives, Kew, Richmond upon Thames in South West London, is the record of the great survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086...

 in the late 11th century, where it is recorded as "Pinpre", but it is believed that the village goes back to Anglo-Saxon times.
A Bronze Age

Bronze Age

The Bronze Age is a period characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacture of some implements and weapons. Chronologically, it stands between the Stone Age and Iron Age...

 settlement was discovered in the barrows to the north of the village. A house found in this has been used as the model for all Bronze Age houses, including the reconstruction at Butser Ancient Farm

Butser Ancient Farm

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, Hampshire

Hampshire

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Pimperne is a peaceful quiet village located close to amenities in near-by Blandford Forum, the village is centralised around a local shop/post office and the church (St Peters).
See also Pimperne (hundred)

Pimperne (hundred)

Pimperne Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:*Bryanston*Durweston*Fifehead Neville*Hammoon*Hazelbury Bryan*Iwerne Stepleton*Langton Long Blandford*Pimperne*Stourpaine*Tarrant Hinton...