Abbotsbury
One and a half miles (2.4 km) northwest of the village, at the top of Wears Hill, are the earthworks of Abbotsbury Castle, an Iron Age hill fort.The earthworks cover a roughly triangular area of about 10 acres , of which about 4.5 acres are inside the ramparts.
In the 10th century a charter of King Edmund records a granting of land at Abbedesburi, a name which indicates the land may have once belonged to an abbot. In the 11th century King Cnut granted land at nearby Portesham to the Scandinavian thegn Orc , who took up residence in the area with his wife Tolal. The couple founded Abbotsbury Abbey and enriched it with a substantial amount of land.
In 1086, in the Domesday Book Abbotsbury was recorded as Abedesberie or Abodesberie; it had 62 households, 16 ploughlands, 32 acres of meadow and 2 mills. It was in the hundred of Uggescombe and the lords and tenants-in-chief were Abbotsbury Abbey and Hawise, wife of Hugh son of Grip.
Burton Bradstock is a village and civil parish in Dorset, England, approximately 2+1⁄2 miles southeast of Bridport and 1⁄2 mile inland from the English Channel at Chesil Beach. In the 2011 Census the parish had a population of 948. The village lies in the Bride Valley, close to the mouth of the small River Bride. It comprises 16th- and 17th-century thatched cottages, a parish church (dedicated to St Mary the Virgin), two pubs, a primary school, shop, post office stores, beach café, hotel, garage, village hall, reading room a library. The parish has a National Coastwatch Institution Station, Lyme Bay Station.
History
The place was first recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bridetone, it had 28 households and the lord of the manor was the Abbey of Saint-Wandrille. The toponym means the place (Old English tūn) on the River Bride, and therefore has a different origin from most places named "Burton", including Burton, Dorset.
In 1286 land in the village was acquired by Bradenstoke Priory in Wiltshire.[5] Bradenstoke, sometimes pronounced Bradstock,[6] gave its name to the suffix "Bradstock".
Charmouth
Charmouth is a coastal village which overlooks Lyme Bay and is part of the Jurassic Coast. It lies among steep hills and is sited on a sloping site to the west of the River Char, close to its mouth at the English Channel. Stonebarrow Hill is to the east, Black Venn to the west, and Golden Cap, the highest cliff on the south coast of England at 627 ft, is 2+1⁄2 miles to the east. The National Trust owns significant portions of the surrounding area.
The cliffs above the beach are a noted source of fossils from the Jurassic period
The local church, The Parish Church of St. Mary, dates largely from the late 14th or early 15th century, though it was significantly restored in 1897.[8] 950 yards south-east of the church is the Bronze Age burial mound of Bind Barrow, it is 64 feet (19.5 m) in diameter and 5 feet (1.52 m) high, it was scheduled as an ancient monument in 1959.[8][9]
The cliffs were used for training before the Normandy landings in 1943
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