Chalbury is a village in the

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county of

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. It lies on the southern edge of

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within the

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administrative district of the county, four miles north of

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and four miles west of

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. The village is sited on Chalbury Hill, the view from which has been described as "one of the most fascinating in the county". The Dorset broadcaster

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wrote of the hill and its view: :"Here there is a hill which is only three hundred feet high but which manages to give a wonderful view over woodland, heath, fertile chalk and the distant Isle of Wight. This feeling of immense space seen from relatively small hills is a blessed peculiarity of Dorset." The village has a

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of 140 (2001). Journalist Mary Frances Billington was born at Chalbury in 1862, while her father was the rector at

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.Fred Hunter
"Billington, Mary Frances (1862–1925)"
''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press 2004).

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External links

Census dataPhotographs and Information on Chalbury Church from Strolling Guides
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