Ludwell is a small village in south
Wiltshire, England, approximately east of the town of
Shaftesbury,
Dorset. It lies within the
Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs
Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) covering of Dorset, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. It is the sixth largest AONB in England.
The area was designated as an AONB in 1981 and confirmed i ...
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The village is on the
A30 Salisbury-Shaftesbury road.
For the purposes of local government, Ludwell is part of
Donhead St Mary
Donhead St Mary is a village and civil parish in southwest Wiltshire, England, on the county border with Dorset. The village lies about east of the Dorset town of Shaftesbury and stands on high ground above the River Nadder, which rises in the ...
civil parish.
Peckons Hill, Birdbush and Brook Waters are neighbouring hamlets to the northeast of Ludwell, along the A30 towards
Ansty and
Swallowcliffe
Swallowcliffe is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about southeast of Tisbury and west of Salisbury. The village lies about half a mile north of the A30 Shaftesbury- Wilton road which crosses the parish.
Geography
S ...
.
The village has a primary school which was established in 1875, and an
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of th ...
church, St John the Baptist, built in 1839 in
Neo-Norman style with a two-tower west facade.
Notable buildings are Ludwell Stores & Post Office, a late 18th-century house with attached former bakery; and the ''Grove Arms'' public house, from the early 17th century with additions in the early 18th and 19th.
Other businesses include T. Buttlings traditional butchers and Greenacre farm shop.
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Villages in Wiltshire
