Plush, Dorset Explained

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Country:England
Official Name:Plush
Coordinates:50.8183°N -2.4068°W
Map Type:Dorset
Unitary England:Dorset
Shire County:Dorset
Region:South West England
Os Grid Reference:ST715022

Plush is a small village in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the civil parish of Piddletrenthide in the west of the county, and is approximately 8miles north of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a small side-valley of the River Piddle at an altitude of 130m (430feet) and is surrounded by chalk hills which rise to 251m (823feet) at Ball Hill, a kilometre to the northeast, and 261m (856feet) at Lyscombe Hill, 2½ kilometres to the east.

Plush consists of a few thatched cottages, a public house, 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.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Dorset: The Buildings of England by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner. Page 317. Published by Penguin Books 1972. Reprinted 1975.