Bowridge Hill

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Bowridge Hill
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Bowridge Hill
Location within Dorset
OS grid reference ST8127
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Gillingham
Dialling code 01747
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51°02′53″N2°15′54″W / 51.048°N 02.265°W / 51.048; -02.265 Coordinates: 51°02′53″N2°15′54″W / 51.048°N 02.265°W / 51.048; -02.265
Bowridge Hill farmhouse (19th-century drawing) The Greene family in England and America, with pedigrees (1901) (14579516808).jpg
Bowridge Hill farmhouse (19th-century drawing)

Bowridge Hill is a hamlet 1 mile north east of Gillingham in Dorset, England, including the Grade II listed Lower Bowridge Hill Farmhouse, a 17th-century building once the home of the Green(e) family. [1] [2]

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References

  1. Historic England: Lower Bowridge Hill Farmhouse
  2. Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), p. 79

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