Place:Alderholt, Dorset, England

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NameAlderholt
Alt namesCrendellsource: hamlet in parish
Cripplestylesource: hamlet in parish
TypeAncient parish, Civil parish
Coordinates50.913°N 1.832°W
Located inDorset, England
See alsoCranborne Hundred, Dorset, Englandhundred in which it was located
Wimborne and Cranborne Rural, Dorset, Englandrural district 1894-1974
East Dorset District, Dorset, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area 1974-2019
the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Alderholt is a civil parish and a large village in the East Dorset District of Dorset, England; situated 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Fordingbridge in the county of Hampshire. The parish includes the hamlets of Crendell and Cripplestyle. Local travel links are to Salisbury railway station and to Bournemouth International Airport. The main road running through the village is the B3078 connecting Alderholt to Fordingbridge and Shaftesbury. The village has a population of 3,113 according to the UK census of 2001, increasing along with the whole of its electoral ward to 3,171 at the UK 2011 census.

There are three churches in the village: Alderholt Chapel, St James' Church of England, and the Tabernacle Gospel Church.

Until 1964, the village was served by a railway station named Daggons Road, situated to the west of the village, and on a line connecting to Fordingbridge and Salisbury to the north, and Verwood and Wimborne Minster to the south.

The civil parish was created in 1894. A Parish Book was published in 1994 by the Alderholt Parish Council, recording Parish details and interest over its first century.

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