Plush is a small village in the

English county The counties of England are a type of subdivision of England. Counties have been used as administrative areas in England since Anglo-Saxon times. There are three definitions of county in England: the 48 ceremonial counties used for the purpo ...

Dorset Dorset ( ; Archaism, archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by Somerset to the north-west, Wiltshire to the north and the north-east, Hampshire to the east, t ...

. It lies within the

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Piddletrenthide Piddletrenthide () is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The village lies on the small River Piddle in a valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs, north of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish—which inclu ...

in the west of the county, and is approximately north of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a small side-valley of the

River Piddle The River Piddle or Trent or North River is a small rural Dorset river which rises in the Dorset Downs and flows into Poole Harbour near Wareham. Etymology The river's name has Germanic origins and has had various spellings over the years. I ...

at an altitude of and is surrounded by chalk hills which rise to at

Ball Hill Ball Hill is an area within the Stoke district of Coventry, West Midlands, England. It is to the east of Coventry city centre. Walsgrave Road is the main street that runs through Ball Hill, which is a name that primarily defines the shopping ...

, a kilometre to the northeast, and at Lyscombe Hill, 2½ kilometres to the east. Plush consists of a few thatched cottages, a public house, a

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manor house and a small church dedicated to St John the Baptist; the church was designed in 1848 by

Benjamin Ferrey Benjamin Ferrey List of Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London, FSA Royal Institute of British Architects, FRIBA (1 April 1810 – 22 August 1880) was an English architect who worked mostly in the Gothic revival architecture, Gothic Re ...

, a

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architect and close friend of Pugin.''Dorset:

The Buildings of England ''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The ...

'' by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner. Page 317. Published by Penguin Books 1972. Reprinted 1975.

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Villages in Dorset {{Dorset-geo-stub

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