Piddlehinton is a village and
civil parish
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in west
Dorset
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,
England
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, situated in the
Piddle valley north of
Dorchester. In the
2011 census the parish had a population of 403.
[ Piddlehinton formerly constituted a ]liberty
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In modern politics, liberty is understood as the state of being free within society fr ...
containing only the parish itself.
The local schools are Piddle Valley First School, St Mary's Middle School in Puddletown, The Thomas Hardye School
The Thomas Hardye School is a secondary academy school in Dorchester, Dorset, England. It is also part of the DASP group.
History
Grammar school
The school is named after Thomas Hardye of Melcombe Regis and later Frampton. Hardye was a prop ...
and Dorset Studio School in Dorchester, members of the DASP
The Dorchester Area Schools Partnership (DASP) is a group of 19 schools in the Dorchester area. It includes 13 first schools, three middle schools, an upper school (The Thomas Hardye School), an independent school and a learning centre.
History ...
group. The village has one public house
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called The Thimble, but no shop or post office. The nearest shop is in Piddletrenthide. St Mary's Piddlehinton is the local church. A microbrewery
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—the Dorset Piddle Brewery—was established in Piddlehinton in 2008 and produces 300 gallons of ale every week.
During the build-up to D-Day the US Army operated from an airstrip in Piddlehinton using Piper L-4 Grasshoppers of the 62nd Armed Field Artillery Battalion. The exact location of the airstrip in Piddlehinton is unknown.
Piddlehinton is at the southern end of the Piddle Valley electoral ward, which extends north up the valley to Buckland Newton and had a population of 1,988 in the 2011 census.
See also
* List of liberties in Dorset
Notes
External links
Villages in Dorset
Liberties of Dorset
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