Netherbury

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Netherbury
Dorset

Parish church of St Mary
Location
Grid reference: SY470993
Location: 50°47’27"N, 2°45’13"W
Data
Population: 1,314  (2011)
Post town: Bridport
Postcode: DT6
Local Government
Council: Dorset
Parliamentary
constituency:
West Dorset

Netherbury is a village in Dorset, by the small River Brit, a mile and a half south of Beaminster and four miles north of Bridport. The A3066 road connecting those towns runs half a mile to the east.

The 2011 census noted a parish population, including the small settlements of Melplash, North Bowood, South Bowood, Salwayash, Wooth and Mangerton, of 1,314.

About the village

Along with domestic buildings, Netherbury village has a church, a village hall, and a play park. The church has a Norman font, a 15th-century altar tomb and a 16th-century pulpit.[1] The hills surrounding the village show examples of strip lynchets.[1]

The River Brit used to serve several mills to process the flax used in Bridport's rope-making industry. In Netherbury, the river is crossed by a 17th-century bridge with three dissimilar arches: a larger, round eastern arch accommodated the millrace.[2]

The novelist Mary Anna Needell lived in Netherbury with her family in the 1880s.[3]

See also

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Netherbury)

References

  1. Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 West Dorset District Council (c. 1982). West Dorset Holiday and Tourist Guide. p. 14. 
  2. Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Limited. pp. 127–8. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3. 
  3. Retrieved 2 March 2015.