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The Paddocks, BLANDFORD FORUM, DT11 8PJ

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.

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.

Narrow section of main A350 Blandford Road at Iwerne Minster looking north toward Shaftesbury. The war memorial is on the right at Higher Street about opposite the car, whilst Clayesmore School is further on the left hand side.

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.

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.

The Old Cottage in Higher Street is a hall house of the early 16th century with the hall floored in the 17th century. There have been alterations in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. At one time it was converted into two cottages now reverted to one. Built in a mixture of flint rubble stone and brick with a thatched roof which is supported on four true cruck trusses. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1324637 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.

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.

An attractive shopfront in Iwerne Minster.