Coordinates: 50°44′28″N 2°16′28″W / 50.74099°N 2.27457°W
| Affpuddle | |
| Affpuddle | |
  Affpuddle
 Affpuddle shown within Dorset |
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| Population | 402 [1] |
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| OS grid reference | |
| - London | 121 miles (195 km) |
| Parish | Affpuddle |
| District | Purbeck |
| Shire county | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DORCHESTER |
| Postcode district | DT2 |
| Dialling code | 01305 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
| UK Parliament | South Dorset |
| Website | http://www.affpuddle.co.uk/ |
| List of places: UK • England • Dorset | |
Affpuddle is a small village and civil parish in the Purbeck district of Dorset in South West England, 9 miles (14 km) east of Dorchester. The local travel links are 3 miles (4.8 km) from the village to Moreton railway station and 20 miles (32 km) to Bournemouth International Airport. Part of the village street is the B3390, which divides the village into two. The parish has a population of 402 according to the 2001 Census, whilst the linear village itself has a winter time population of about 36, which increases to as many as 70 on high days and holidays.
The village is in the Piddle valley, just north of the Purbeck conifer plantations and heathland, in a valley beside the villages of Tolpuddle and Puddletown. The village is linear and made of brick, stone and thatched cottages and has a 13th-century church dedicated to St Laurence.
The village was established during or before the Saxon era, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Affapidela, having a manor house belonging to the Abbot of Cerne. After the Dissolution the village became an estate of the Lawrence family, an ancestor of whom married the heiress of a branch of the Washington family, from another branch of which descended George Washington. The Washington arms was quartered by the Lawrences and thus appears on the north wall of the chancel in the village church on a Lawrence monument. The church is noted for its elaborate pews, dated 1545 or 1547, and the finely carved pulpit, undated but in a very similar style.
The village later belonged to the Framptons of Moreton, noted for their involvement with the Tolpuddle Martyrs.
External links
- Affpuddle & Turnerspuddle Parish Website
- Census data
- Dorset Churches, with picture
- Pictures of Affpuddle
References
- ^ Census, 2001
- History of Dorset, Rev John Hutchins, 3rd ed (1861-73)
- Affpuddle in the County of Dorset, Joan Brocklebank (1967)
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