Chettle

Chettle
Chettle parish church
Chettle
Chettle shown within Dorset
Population	90
OS grid reference	ST952134
Civil parish	Chettle
District	North Dorset
Shire county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BLANDFORD FORUM
Postcode district	DT11
Dialling code	01258
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
UK Parliament	North Dorset
List of places UK England Dorset 50°55′13″N 2°04′09″W / 50.9203°N 2.0692°W / 50.9203; -2.0692Coordinates: 50°55′13″N 2°04′09″W / 50.9203°N 2.0692°W / 50.9203; -2.0692

Chettle is a small village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It lies within the North Dorset administrative district, 6 miles (9.7 km) north-east of the town of Blandford Forum. It is sited at the head of a gently-sloping valley on the dip slope of the chalk formation called Cranborne Chase. The A354 trunk road crosses the valley about 1 km to the south. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 90.

Chettle House, the village manor, is a red brick Baroque mansion designed by Thomas Archer, a pupil of Vanbrugh, and built by the Bastard brothers of Blandford Forum during the reign of Queen Anne.Pevsner considered it to be one of England's finest Baroque houses. Two rounded ends were added to the house in 1912. Part of the house is open to the public.

A book about the village, "Enduring Village", was published in August, 2008.

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