Place:Shapwick, Dorset, England

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NameShapwick
Alt namesScapewicsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 95
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.8°N 2.083°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoBadbury Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Shapwick is a village and civil parish in east Dorset, England, situated on the River Stour five miles south-east of Blandford Forum and eight miles north of Poole. The village had a population of 190 in 2001.

Within the parish, about a mile to the north-east of the village, is the Iron Age hill fort of Badbury Rings.

In Roman times there was a Roman Fort at Crab Farm, between Shapwick and Badbury Rings. Just to the west of the fort was a small Romano-British town, believed to be that listed in the Antonine Itinerary as Vindocladia.

In 1983 Shapwick was used as one of the two real life locations for the Doctor Who story The Awakening. The other village used was Martin in Hampshire.

One of its most famous residents was Charles Bennett who won the 1500 metres at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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