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Shute Lane, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 8LZ

Bow Cottage and Hill View in Shute Lane are a pair of mid 19th century brick built cottages. The lower extension with the false timber framing is 20th century. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1110200 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.

Set back from Shute Lane, Primrose Cottage and Church View are a pair of mid 19th century brick built cottages. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1305180 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.

At the junction of Higher Street and Shute Lane, this delightful pump and pump house is dated 1880. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1110195 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.

At the junction of Higher Street and Shute Lane is this shelter containing notice boards built circa 1920 to a design by Giles Gilbert Scott. Known as 'The War Office', the shelter stems from the practice, established during World War I, of posting newspapers and telegraph bulletins on a board over the village pump for the information of villagers. It is now used as a general parish notice board. The shelter has rubble walls with stone dressings with a sculpted relief of Mercury with electric rays emanating from his hands representing the dissemination of news by wireless. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1110196 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.

The Abingdon Memorial Parish Hall, in The Chalk, is a former Baptist chapel. The plaque in the gable reads 'Ebenezer Chapel, built 1810 enlarged 1860'. It became the parish hall in 1979. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1110231 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.

This former primary school in Higher Street is now a part of the independent Clayesmore School. Built in 1884 in red brick with timber framed and rendered gables. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1324638 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.

Looking westward over the village.

Shop, post office and coffee shop.

The village sign in metal on a wooden post is located in The Chalk. Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.

Seen here from the rear, The Chantry, Old School Lane, is a 17th century house. Built in banded ashlar and flint. There are many original internal features including an oak staircase. Listed, grade II*, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1172228 Iwerne Minster is a small village on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, about 5 miles south of Shaftesbury and the same distance north of Blandford Forum. The village is within the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Down Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. There is evidence of occupation since prehistoric times. The River Iwerne flows from a spring in the middle of the village. The original Minister is now St Mary's Church and was built by the Normans on the site of an earlier church.