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Melbury Bubb is a small village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the English county, 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 road, A37 trunk road between Dorchester, Dorset, 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 Anglo-Saxons, Saxon resident named 'Bubba' or from Middle Ages, 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 Victorian restoration, restoration. Its Baptismal font, font however is carved out of the column of an upturned Saxon cross; it is elaborately carved, although the carvings are upside-down.
Families were often noted as owners in books, for instance: the Blain family recently sold the property, despite occupying it for just shy of 100 years.
Melbury Bubb is a small village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the English county, 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 road, A37 trunk road between Dorchester, Dorset, 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 Anglo-Saxons, Saxon resident named 'Bubba' or from Middle Ages, 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 Victorian restoration, restoration. Its Baptismal font, font however is carved out of the column of an upturned Saxon cross; it is elaborately carved, although the carvings are upside-down.
Families were often noted as owners in books, for instance: the Blain family recently sold the property, despite occupying it for just shy of 100 years.
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