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Puncknowle
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Puncknowle ( ) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated on the southern slopes of the Bride Valley approximately east of Bridport and north of Chesil Beach on the Jurassic Coast. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the coastal settlement of West Bexington to the south—had a population of 466.
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cached 1714h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Puncknowle
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.static_image_name
- A glimpse of the Crown at Puncknowle - geograph.org.uk - 1451648.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- The Crown public house from the churchyard
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Puncknowle
- UK place.map_type
- Dorset
- UK place.population
- 466
- UK place.unitary_england
- Dorset
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Dorset
- UK place.region
- South West England
- UK place.post_town
- Dorchester
- UK place.postcode_area
- DT
- UK place.postcode_district
- DT2
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- West Dorset
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SY535886
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Dorset
- Population
- 466
- Image
- A glimpse of the Crown at Puncknowle - geograph.org.uk - 1451648.jpg
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- Puncknowle
- OS grid reference
- SY535886
- P8168
- Vazha Tarkhnishvili
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Puncknowle ( ) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated on the southern slopes of the Bride Valley approximately east of Bridport and north of Chesil Beach on the Jurassic Coast. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the coastal settlement of West Bexington to the south—had a population of 466.
Puncknowle village has a Jacobean manor house, which in 1906 Sir Frederick Treves described as "one of the daintiest and most beautiful manor houses in the county". The Napier family, who came to Puncknowle from Merchiston in Scotland, were lords of the manor for three centuries, until the early 18th century. In the early 19th century the manor was occupied by Colonel Shrapnel, inventor of the shrapnel shell.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puncknowle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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