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Gillingham (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ɪ ŋ əm / ⓘ GHIL-ing-əm) is a town and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England. It lies on the B3095 and B3081 roads, approximately four miles (six kilometres) south of the A303 trunk road and five miles (eight kilometres) northwest of Shaftesbury .
Gillingham Bridge is an 1823 landscape painting by the British artist John Constable.It portrays a scene of the country town of Gillingham in Dorset. [1] It features the old bridge crossing the River Stour (not to be confused with the river of the same name in Constable's native Suffolk) by the town with church tower of St Mary the Virgin in the background.
Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway; St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury ; Stonebarrow Hill; Swanage Railway; Tout Quarry; The Verne; Victoria Gardens; Wareham Forest; Wimborne Minster; Winterborne Came House; On the Jurassic Coast (a World Heritage Site) Abbotsbury Swannery (not AL) Arish Mell (within Lulworth Ranges) Bat's Head; Bran Point ...
Gillingham railway station serves the town of Gillingham, Dorset, England. It is on the West of England Main Line, 105 miles 23 chains (169.4 km) down the line from London Waterloo. Today it is managed by South Western Railway. The main offices, designed by Sir William Tite, stand on the north side of the line. [1]
Gillingham Bridge by John Constable, 1823. The church tower is visible in the background. Memorials to those who died in the First World War can be seen hanging above the Jacobean communion table in St. Catherine's Chapel. The Book of Remembrance nearby records all those who served in the two world wars and also those who died.
Buckhorn Weston is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated in the Blackmore Vale about 3 miles (5 kilometres) west of the town of Gillingham. It lies on the western edge of the former royal hunting ground of Gillingham Forest. The underlying geology is Oxford clay and Corallian limestone. [2]
The Gillingham ward is named for the town of Gillingham and also contains the civil parishes of Bourton, Buckhorn Weston, East Stour, Kington Magna, Motcombe and West Stour [3] [4] Councillors [ edit ]
Bowridge Hill is a hamlet 1 mile north east of Gillingham in Dorset, England, including the Grade II listed Lower Bowridge Hill Farmhouse, a 17th-century building once the home of the Greene family. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]