Static Image: | Plush, The Brace of Pheasants - geograph.org.uk - 425889.jpg |
Static Image Width: | 240px |
Static Image Caption: | The Brace Of Pheasants public house, Plush |
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]