Place:East Stour, Dorset, England

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NameEast Stour
Alt namesStursource: Domesday Book (1985) p 95
Sturesource: Domesday Book (1985) p 95
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates51°N 2.283°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoRedland Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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East Stour is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the North Dorset administrative district, about south of the town of Gillingham. The village is from the east bank of the River Stour in the Blackmore Vale and west of the broadly conical local landmark Duncliffe Hill (with a summit elevation of ). Above the west bank of the river, about away, is the village of West Stour. The A30 London to Penzance road passes through the village. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 573.[1]

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