Plush, Dorset
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Plush is a hamlet in central Dorset
in south-west England
. It is sited in a small side-valley of the River Piddle
about 8 miles north of Dorchester. It lies at an altitude of 130 metres and is surrounded by chalk hills which rise to 258 metres at Nettlecombe Tout. The village is little more than a few thatched cottages, a Regency manor house and a small church dedicated to St John the Baptist; the church was designed in 1848 by Benjamin Ferrey, a Gothic Revival architect and close friend of Pugin.
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...
in south-west 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...
. It is sited in a small side-valley of the River Piddle
River Piddle
The River Piddle or Trent or North River is a small rural Dorset river which rises next to Alton Pancras church and flows south and then south-easterly more or less parallel with its bigger neighbour, the River Frome, to Wareham, where they both enter Poole Harbour via...
about 8 miles north of Dorchester. It lies at an altitude of 130 metres and is surrounded by chalk hills which rise to 258 metres at Nettlecombe Tout. The village is little more than a few thatched cottages, a Regency manor house and a small church dedicated to St John the Baptist; the church was designed in 1848 by Benjamin Ferrey, a Gothic Revival architect and close friend of Pugin.