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Melbury House Dorset Morris Edited
Melbury may refer to: Dorset, England *Melbury Abbas, village and civil parish in north Dorset, between Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum on the edge of Cranborne Chase * Melbury Bubb, small village and civil parish in Dorset, approximately 7 miles south of the town of Sherborne * Melbury Down, area of downland in northern Dorset *Melbury Hill and summit Melbury Beacon is a prominent hill, 263 metres high, on the North Dorset Downs above the village of Melbury Abbas *Melbury House in Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset, the seat of the Strangways family of Dorset since 1500 *Melbury Osmond, village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England Melbury Road, Holland Park, London * 29 Melbury Road, or The Tower House, a late-Victorian townhouse built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home * 2b Melbury Road, Grade II listed house built in 1877 by Sir John Belcher * 31 Melbury Road, or Woodland House, Queen Anne-style House by architect Richard Norman S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbury Abbas
Melbury Abbas is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, 3 km SSW of the town of Shaftesbury, east of the A350 Shaftesbury to Blandford Forum road. Local Features Melbury Abbas is on the western edge of Cranborne Chase in hilly terrain. Melbury Hill (256 metres ASL) is 1 km WSW of the village, Breeze Hill (262 metres ASL) is 2 km to the east of the village. The grass airfield of Compton Abbas (247 metres ASL) is 2 km to the SE of the village. History In 1086 Melbury Abbas was recorded in the Domesday Book as ''Meleberie''. It was in Sixpenny Hundred and had 47 households, 12 ploughlands and 4 mills. The lord and tenant-in-chief was Shaftesbury Abbey. The Village Today In the 2011 census the civil parish (CP) had 147 dwellings. The CP includes West Melbury and part of Cann Common. 134 households and a population of 305. Church of St Thomas This is on the south side of the village and as well as a square tower at the south west end, has a lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbury Bubb
Melbury Bubb is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England, situated approximately south of the town of Sherborne. It is sited on Cornbrash limestone beneath the chalk hills of the Dorset Downs. The A37 trunk road between Dorchester and Bristol passes about to the west, on the other side of Bubb Down Hill. This hill used to be the site of a beacon. The first half of the village name derives from ''maele'' and ''burh''—Old English for "multi-coloured" and "fortified place"—and the second half is a manorial name which derives either from a Saxon resident named 'Bubba' or from medieval lords of the manor. Dorset County Council's latest (2013) estimate of the parish population is 40. The parish church of St Mary has a 15th-century tower but the rest of the building was largely rebuilt in a 19th-century restoration. Its font In metal typesetting, a font is a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font is a matched set of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbury Down
Melbury Down is an area of downland in northern Dorset, England. It is owned by the National Trust. The chalk grassland here supports large butterfly populations, including very large numbers of Chalkhill Blue The chalkhill blue (''Lysandra coridon'') is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is a small butterfly that can be found throughout the Palearctic realm, where it occurs primarily in grasslands rich in chalk. Males have a pale blue colour, wh ..., and a colony of Silver-spotted Skipper. External links Fontmell and Melbury Downs- National Trust Nature reserves in Dorset National Trust properties in Dorset {{Dorset-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbury Hill
Melbury Hill, whose summit is also called Melbury Beacon,''Melbury Hill, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Down'' at DorsetLife. Accessed on 26 Mar 2013. is a prominent hill, 263 metres high, on the high chalk escarpment of the North Dorset Downs above the village of in the county of in southern . From Melbury Beacon there are superb panoramic views of |
Melbury House
Melbury House is an English country house in the parish of Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset, This Grade I listed mansion is the home of the Honorable Mrs Charlotte Townshend, a major landowner in east Dorset, through her mother, Theresa Fox-Strangways ( Viscountess Galway). History Melbury House has been the seat of the Strangways family of Dorset since the estate was acquired in 1500 from William Browning (''alias'' Bruning, etc.) by Sir Henry Strangways (c.1465-1504) who had married his widow. The mediaeval manor house of the Browning family was rebuilt after 1546 by Henry's great-grandson Sir Giles Strangways (1528-1562) using ham stone from a quarry nine miles away. Though Sir Giles lived extravagantly and encumbered his considerable estate with debts at his premature death, at Melbury he built a conservative house, "a courtyard with no frills", as Mark Girouard described it, "apart from the one gesture of its tower". This remarkable feature, a hexagonal tower, ris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbury Osmond
Melbury Osmond is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies approximately south of the Somerset town of Yeovil. The underlying geology is Cornbrash limestone, with adjacent Oxford clay. Within the clay can be found deposits of stone which can take on a very high polish, earning them the name "Melbury marble". The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as a possession of the Arundell family, and remained so until the 19th century. The parish church, St. Osmund's, was totally rebuilt in 1745Treves, Sir F., ''Highways and Byways in Dorset'', Macmillan, 1906, pp322-323 and restored in 1888, although it has registers dating back to 1550. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 199. The major part of Melbury Osmond village lies on a cul-de-sac lane which from the church descends past cottages to a stream and ford. The attractive appearance of the village has been noted by commentators: it has been described as "a calendarsmith's d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
29 Melbury Road
The Tower House, 29 Melbury Road, is a late-Victorian townhouse in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home. Designed between 1875 and 1881, in the French Gothic Revival style, it was described by the architectural historian J. Mordaunt Crook as "the most complete example of a medieval secular interior produced by the Gothic Revival, and the last". The house is built of red brick, with Bath stone dressings and green roof slates from Cumbria, and has a distinctive cylindrical tower and conical roof. The ground floor contains a drawing room, a dining room and a library, while the first floor has two bedrooms and an armoury. Its exterior and the interior echo elements of Burges's earlier work, particularly Park House in Cardiff and Castell Coch. It was designated a Grade I listed building in 1949. Burges bought the lease on the plot of land in 1875. The house was built by the Ashby Brothers, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
