Henbury, Dorset

Henbury
Henbury
 Henbury shown within Dorset
OS grid referenceSY960985
DistrictEast Dorset
Shire countyDorset
RegionSouth West
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town WIMBORNE
Postcode district BH21
Dialling code 01258
Police Dorset
Fire Dorset
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK ParliamentNorth Dorset
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Coordinates: 50°47′13″N 2°03′28″W / 50.78689°N 2.05771°W / 50.78689; -2.05771

Henbury is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, England. It lies on the A31 road.

Henbury House is a classical Georgian house built in 1770.[1] In the 19th century the estate was held by the Parke family. In the 1870s two members of the Parke family emigrated to Australia and founded Henbury Station,[2] a cattle station some 140 km south of Alice Springs, near where the Henbury Crater was discovered in 1899.

References

  1. ↑ East Dorset County Council: Areas of Great Landscape Vale (June 1997)
  2. ↑ Peter Forrest, Henbury, in the Centralian Advocate, 1984
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