Milborne St Andrew
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 Parish church of St Andrew |
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| Milborne St Andrew shown within Dorset | |
| Population | 1,062 |
| OS grid reference | SY805975 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BLANDFORD FORUM |
| Postcode district | DT11 |
| Police | Dorset |
| Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
| Ambulance | South Western |
| EU Parliament | South West England |
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Milborne St Andrew is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is sited in a winterbourne valley on the dip slope of the Dorset Downs, on the A354 road 9 miles (14 km) northeast of the county town Dorchester. It lies in the North Dorset administrative district. In the 2011 census the parish had 472 dwellings, 453 households and a population of 1,062.
Weatherby Castle is an Iron Age hill fort that encloses about 17.5 acres (7.1 ha) on a spur of land about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) south of the village. Its structure comprises two concentric enclosures, though parts have been damaged by cultivation and ploughing. Pieces of Roman ware were found within the site in the 19th century.
In 1086 in the Domesday Book Milborne St Andrew was recorded as Meleburne; it had 10 households, 4 ploughlands, 5 acres (2.0 ha) of meadow and 1 mill. It was in Puddletown Hundred and the lord and tenant-in-chief was Matthew of Mortagne.
There were originally two settlements within the parish: St Andrew to the south of the Dorchester-Blandford road, and Deverel to the north, though over time these coalesced into one settlement around where the road crosses the Milborne Brook. At the end of the 19th century St Andrew's ecclesiastical parish was enlarged by the addition of neighbouring Milborne Stileham to the south east (previously part of Bere Regis parish), though the civil parishes remained separate until 1933.
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