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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 .
This is a list of settlements in Dorset by population based on the results of the 2011 census.The next United Kingdom census will take place in 2021.In 2011, there were 18 built-up area subdivisions with 5,000 or more inhabitants in Dorset, shown in the table below, along with the slightly smaller Lyme Regis.
Old milestone in Blandford Forum showing use of the name Shaston for Shaftesbury. Shaftesbury (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː f t s b ər i, ˈ ʃ æ f t s-/) is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England.It is on the A30 road, 20 miles (32 kilometres) west of Salisbury and 23 miles (37 kilometres) north-northeast of Dorchester, near the border with Wiltshire.
It was served by trains on the West of England Main Line and was the railhead for the town of Shaftesbury, Dorset, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (4 km) to the south. Although several plans were made to give Shaftesbury its own station, the town's position on a hill prevented this. The nearest station to Shaftesbury is now Gillingham.
Gillingham: 3 Hill Forts and Upper Tarrants: 1 Littlemoor and Preston: 2 Lyme and Charmouth: 1 Lytchett Matravers and Upton: 3 Marshwood Vale: 1 Melcombe Regis: 1 Portland: 3 Puddletown and Lower Winterborne: 1 Radipole: 2 Rodwell and Wyke: 3 Shaftesbury Town: 2 Sherborne East: 1 Sherborne Rural: 1 Sherborne West: 1 South East Purbeck: 1 St ...
Shaftesbury Abbey: Benedictine nuns founded c.888 by Alfred (or before 860 by Alfred, his father Æthelbald and brothers Æthelbert and Ethelred), possibly on site of 7th century Saxon minster (see immediately below); Benedictine nuns refounded during the reign of Edgar; dissolved 2 March 1539; granted to William, Earl of Southampton 1547/8;
In the twentieth century the LSWR operated motor bus services from Gillingham station to Mere, Zeals and Shaftesbury. [1] In 1923 the LSWR became part of the Southern Railway, which in turn was nationalised in 1948 to become the Southern Region of British Railways. A new signal box was opened on 28 April 1957, but on 5 April 1965 public goods ...
Geological map of Dorset Stratigraphic column. Dorset / ˈ d ɔːr s ɪ t / (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. Covering an area of 2,653 square kilometres (1,024 sq mi); it borders Devon to the west, Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north-east, and Hampshire to the east.