Netherbury is a
village
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and
civil parish
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in the
English county
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of
Dorset
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. It lies within the
Dorset Council administrative area, by the small
River Brit
The River Brit is a river in west Dorset in south-west England, which rises just to the north of Beaminster. It then flows south to Netherbury and Bridport, where it is joined by tributaries: the River Simene and River Asker. South of Bridpo ...
, south of
Beaminster
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and north of
Bridport
Bridport is a market town in Dorset, England, inland from the English Channel near the confluence of the River Brit and its tributary the Asker. Its origins are Saxon and it has a long history as a rope-making centre. On the coast and withi ...
. The
A3066 road connecting those towns lies 0.5 miles to the east.
Population
In the
2011 census the parish, including the villages of
Melplash and
Salway Ash
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, and the small settlements of
Atrim
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Salway Ash (also spelt Salwayash) i ...
,
Oxbridge
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, Waytown, North and South Bowood, Wooth, Silkhay, Mangerton, Whitecross, Filford, Dottery, Hincknowle and Loscombe, had a population of 1,314.
[ Netherbury is within an electoral ward that bears its name and stretches south to the edge of Bridport. The ward population was 2,080.
]
Facilities
Along with domestic buildings, Netherbury village has a church, a village hall, and a play park. The church has a Norman font, a 15th-century altar tomb and a 16th-century pulpit.[
The River Brit used to serve several mills to process the ]flax
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used in Bridport's rope-making industry. In Netherbury, the river is crossed by a 17th-century bridge with three dissimilar arches: a larger, round eastern arch accommodated the millrace.Mary Anna Needell
Mary Anna Needell (née Lupton, 1830–1922), was a popular English novelist, who usually wrote as Mrs. J. H. Needell. She was born at Vanbrugh Castle, Blackheath, Kent, now divided between the London boroughs of Greenwich and Lewisham. Little ...
lived in Netherbury with her family in the 1880s.[Retrieved 2 March 2015.](_blank)
/ref> Kingsland House was the birthplace of Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet
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(1762–1814).
See also
* River Cottage
Notes
External links
Netherbury village websiteParish council website
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Villages in Dorset
Civil parishes in Dorset