Sedgehill and Semley is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the English county of

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, about north of the town of

Shaftesbury Shaftesbury () is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset, being built about above sea level on a ...

on the main

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. It is in the southwest of Wiltshire and adjoins

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. The parish includes the villages of

Sedgehill Sedgehill is a former civil parish, with scattered small settlements, now within Sedgehill and Semley civil parish in the southwest of the English county of Wiltshire. It lies to the west of the A350 primary route, about north of Shaftesbury ...

and

Semley Semley is a village in Sedgehill and Semley civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about north-east of Shaftesbury in neighbouring Dorset. The hamlet of Sem Hill lies about a quarter of a mile west of the village. The River Sem, from which the v ...

, and the hamlets of Barkers Hill (in the southeast, towards

Donhead St Andrew Donhead St Andrew is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, on the River Nadder. It lies east of the Dorset market town of Shaftesbury. The parish includes the hamlets of West End, Milkwell and (on the A30) Brook Waters. Ferne House ...

) and Sem Hill (near Semley). The population of the parish at the 2011 census was 601. The River Sem forms part of the northern boundary of the parish, and is fed by several streams which cross the parish in a generally northeasterly direction. The Sem joins the

River Nadder The River Nadder is a tributary of the River Avon, flowing in south Wiltshire, England. Course The river flows north from Ludwell to West End where it is joined by the Ferne Brook, close to the Lower Coombe and Ferne Brook Meadows site of spec ...

in the northeast corner of the parish near Wardour, and the short eastern boundary of the parish follows the course of the Nadder.

Governance

The parish was created in 1986 by combining formerly separate parishes. The parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of

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, which is responsible for all significant local government functions. The parish is in the

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constituency of South West Wiltshire.

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