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Pimperne works well as a base: 10 minutes from Charlton Marshall, 30km from Lulworth Cove.
Pimperne is a town located in England, United Kingdom. With a population of 1,109, it is an important destination in Europe.
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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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Pimperne is located in England, United Kingdom, Europe. The coordinates are 50.8837 latitude, -2.1362 longitude.
Pimperne has a population of approximately 1,109 people, making it a town in United Kingdom.
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A seven-mile stretch of golden sand along the Dorset coast, one of England's most popular seaside destinations.
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One of the world's finest landscape gardens with a magnificent lake, classical temples and a stunning Palladian mansion in Wiltshire.
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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
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A remarkable collection of rare and unique motorcycles in the New Forest assembled by legendary trials rider Sammy Miller.
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Almost perfectly circular cove formed by the sea eroding through Portland limestone, creating one of the world's finest examples of coastal geology.
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