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Pimperne works well as a base: 10 minutes from Charlton Marshall, 30km from Lulworth Cove.
Pimperne is in England, United Kingdom, with about 1,100 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Charlton Marshall, about 5 km away.
Pimperne ( PIM-pərn) is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, situated on Cranborne Chase two miles (three kilometres) northeast of the town of Blandford Forum. At the 2011 census the civil parish had 478 households and a population of 1109.
The first records of Pimperne are in Domesday Book in the lateRead more
11th century, where it is recorded as "Pinpre", but it is believed that the village goes back to Anglo-Saxon times. A Bronze Age settlement was discovered in the barrows to the north of the village. A house found there has been used as the model for all Bronze Age houses, including the reconstruction at Butser Ancient Farm, Hampshire. The parish church of St Peter was rebuilt by Lord Portman of Bryanston in 1872–4, though some Norman features from the previous building, such as the font and chancel arch, were retained.
Pimperne is centred on its pub and the parish church. Other amenities are found in nearby Blandford Forum.
Pimperne parish is within the Cranborne Chase electoral ward, which extends north eastwards through Tarrant Hinton to Ashmore. The ward had a population of 1,993 in the 2011 census and is part of the constituency of North Dorset, which is currently represented in the UK parliament by the Conservative Simon Hoare.
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Within an hour or so of Pimperne: Gold Hill, Shaftesbury (14 km), Gurston Down Motorsport Hillclimb (20 km), Cerne Abbas Giant (25 km), Bournemouth Beach (26 km).
The nearest famous roads are Rhinefield Ornamental Drive, Military Road, Isle of Wight and Cheddar Gorge Road (B3135).
Pimperne is in England, United Kingdom, about 5 km from Charlton Marshall.
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photogenic
Steep cobbled street lined with thatched cottages, plunging past the buttressed walls of Shaftesbury Abbey with views over Blackmore Vale. Made famous by Ridley Scott's 1973 Hovis bread advert.
14 km · about 25 min drive
racetrack
A 1,000-yard chalk downland hillclimb in Wiltshire with a fearsome uphill Karousel corner, run by enthusiasts since 1967 and one of the best places in Britain to watch sprint cars up close.
20 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
A 55 m chalk hill figure of a club-wielding naked man above a Dorset village, now dated to the late Saxon period.
25 km · about 30 min drive
beach
A seven-mile stretch of golden sand along the Dorset coast, one of England's most popular seaside destinations.
26 km · about 30 min drive
landmark
One of the world's finest landscape gardens with a magnificent lake, classical temples and a stunning Palladian mansion in Wiltshire.
28 km · about 30 min drive
castle
Atmospheric ruins of a thousand-year-old royal castle perched on a hilltop, dramatically slighted during the English Civil War.
28 km · about 30 min drive
film location
The Palladian bridge and Temple of Apollo in Stourhead's landscape garden host Darcy's rain-soaked first proposal in the 2005 film.
28 km · about 30 min drive
natural wonder
Almost perfectly circular cove formed by the sea eroding through Portland limestone, creating one of the world's finest examples of coastal geology.
30 km · about 35 min drive
April to October
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