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
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 trun ...
, small village and civil parish in Dorset, approximately 7 miles south of the town of Sherborne
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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 ...
, 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
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 Goth ...
, 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
2b Melbury Road is a Grade II listed house in Holland Park, London W14, built in 1877 by Sir John Belcher.
It was home to the sculptor Sir Hamo Thornycroft, to whom there is a blue plaque
A blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a p ...
, Grade II listed house built in 1877 by Sir John Belcher
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31 Melbury Road
Woodland House is a large detached house at 31 Melbury Road in the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England. Built from 1875 to 1877 in the Queen Anne style by the architect Richard Norman Shaw, it is a Grade II* lis ...
, or Woodland House, Queen Anne-style House by architect Richard Norman Shaw
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8 Melbury Road
8 Melbury Road is a large detached house at the Holland Park district of Kensington and Chelsea, W14. Built in the Queen Anne style by the architect Richard Norman Shaw, it is a Grade II* listed building.
It was commissioned by the painter Ma ...
, Queen Anne-style house by architect Richard Norman Shaw
Fiction
*Melbury, a fictional London suburb in ''
Random Harvest'', a novel by James Hilton
*A small village in the novel ''The vanishing point'', by
Patricia Wentworth (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) Melby can refer to the following:
People
* Bob Melby (born 1928), an American optometrist and former politician in the state of Florida
*Ernest O. Melby (1891–1987), a professor, dean, and university president
*Gaute Melby Gundersen (born 1972), ...
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