Melbury may refer to:
Dorset, England
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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 te ...
, village and civil parish in north Dorset, between Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum on the edge of Cranborne Chase
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Melbury Bubb, small village and civil parish in Dorset, approximately 7 miles south of the town of Sherborne
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Melbury Down, area of downland in northern Dorset
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Melbury Hill
Melbury Hill, whose summit is also called Melbury Beacon,[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 ...](_blank)
in Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset, the seat of the Strangways family of Dorset since 1500
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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 ...
, village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England
Melbury Road, Holland Park, London
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29 Melbury Road, or The Tower House, a late-Victorian townhouse built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home
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2b Melbury Road, Grade II listed house built in 1877 by Sir John Belcher
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31 Melbury Road, or Woodland House, Queen Anne-style House by architect Richard Norman Shaw
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8 Melbury Road, Queen Anne-style house by architect Richard Norman Shaw
Fiction
*Melbury, a fictional London suburb in ''
Random Harvest
''Random Harvest'' is a novel written by James Hilton, first published in 1941. Like previous Hilton works, including '' Lost Horizon'' and '' Goodbye, Mr. Chips'', the novel was immensely popular, placing second on ''Publishers Weekly'' li ...
'', a novel by James Hilton
*A small village in the novel ''The vanishing point'', by
Patricia Wentworth
Dora Amy Turnbull (formerly Dillon, née Elles; 15 October 1877 – 28 January 1961), known by pen name Patricia Wentworth, was a British crime fiction writer.
Early life and education
She was born in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India (then the Bri ...
(1953)
*Lord Melbury, a character in "
A Touch of Class", a 1975 episode of BBC sitcom ''Fawlty Towers''
See also
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Melby (disambiguation)
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