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Bloxworth
Dorset
The Old Post Office, Bloxworth - geograph.org.uk - 163270.jpg
Bloxworth, showing the former post office
Location
Grid reference: SY882946
Location: 50°45’4"N, 2°10’7"W
Data
Population: 200
Post town: Wareham
Postcode: BH20
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
Mid Dorset and North Poole

Bloxworth is a village in Dorset, in Wareham Forest and on the A35 road five miles west of Poole in the south-east of the county. The 2011 census recorded in the parish 80 households and a population of 200.

On Bloxworth Heath, which is part of Wareham Forest, is Woolsbarrow Hillfort.

To the northwest of the village is Bloxworth House, the first brick building in Dorset.

The hamlet of East Bloxworth lies about a mile to the east of the village.

Outside links

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References