Marshwood
| Marshwood | |
| Dorset | |
|---|---|
 The Bottle Inn, Marshwood | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SY383997 |
| Location: | 50°47’35"N, 2°52’39"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 310 (2013 est.) |
| Post town: | Bridport |
| Postcode: | DT6 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Dorset |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
West Dorset |
Marshwood is a village in western Dorset, situated on the northern edge of the Marshwood Vale approximately five and half miles northeast of Lyme Regis. An estimate in 2013 determined that the parish had a population of 310.
The parish church is St Mary, which stands just outside the village on the B3165. The original church was a Norman chapel enclosed within the moat at Marshwood Castle: the site is now part of Lodge House Farm. It was abandoned after the Civil War and for approximately 200 years Marshwood was an outlying parish attached to Whitchurch Canonicorum. In 1840 Charles Benjamin Tucker gave land for a new church.
The Bottle Inn on the outskirts of Marshwood is home to the world stinging nettle eating championships. It is also the 2016 Regional (Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire & the Channel Islands) CAMRA winner for its range & quality of ciders & ales.
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