Mappowder

Also known as Mappowder, Dorset

Mappowder is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. The parish lies approximately southeast of the town of Sherborne and covers about at an elevation of . It is sited on Corallian limestone soil at the southern edge of the Blackmore Vale, close to the northern scarp face of the Dorset Downs. In the 2011 census the parish had 71 dwellings, 69 households and a population of 166.

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Locality: Mappowder
Region: England
Country: United Kingdom
Population: 0

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UK place.country: England
UK place.static_image_name: Mappowder Church - geograph.org.uk - 367095.jpg
UK place.static_image_caption: Parish church of St Peter and St Paul
UK place.official_name: Mappowder
UK place.map_type: Dorset
UK place.population: 166
UK place.unitary_england: Dorset
UK place.lieutenancy_england: Dorset
UK place.post_town: Sturminster Newton
UK place.postcode_area: DT
UK place.postcode_district: DT10
UK place.constituency_westminster: North Dorset
UK place.region: South West England
UK place.os_grid_reference: ST735061

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Population: 166
Image: Mappowder Church - geograph.org.uk - 367095.jpg

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Commons category: Mappowder
OS grid reference: ST735061
P8168: Mariner 2

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The village name comes from mapuldor, Old English for 'maple tree'. In 1086 in the Domesday Book Mappowder was recorded as Mapledre and appears in four entries; it was in Buckland Newton Hundred, had 33.3 households and a total taxable value of 8.3 geld units.