Corscombe
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Corscombe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, in the Dorset Council administrative area. The parish includes the small settlements of Benville and Toller Whelme to the south and in the 2011 census had a population of 445.
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Place details
- Locality
- Corscombe
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 445
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- Corscombe Village - geograph.org.uk - 260462.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Corscombe village
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.map_type
- Dorset
- UK place.official_name
- Corscombe
- UK place.population
- 445
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
- UK place.post_town
- Dorchester
- UK place.postcode_area
- DT
- UK place.postcode_district
- DT2
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Dorset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- ST518053
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Dorset
- Population
- 445
- Official website
- www.corscombe.org
- Image
- Corscombe Village - geograph.org.uk - 260462.jpg
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- Commons category
- Corscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST518053
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Encyclopedic overview
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Corscombe is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, in the Dorset Council administrative area. The parish includes the small settlements of Benville and Toller Whelme to the south and in the 2011 census had a population of 445.
Corscombe village is sited "into hollows and along sunken lanes" on the northern scarp slope of the Dorset Downs, approximately south-south-west from the town of Yeovil in Somerset. Evidence of early human occupation within the parish includes lynchets and, south of the village, three standing stones.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Corscombe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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