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Melbury

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Melbury may refer to:

Dorset, England

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  • Melbury Abbas, village and civil parish in north Dorset, between Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum on the edge of Cranborne Chase
  • Melbury Bubb, small village and civil parish in Dorset, approximately 7 miles south of the town of Sherborne
  • Melbury Down, area of downland in northern Dorset
  • Melbury Hill and summit Melbury Beacon is a prominent hill, 263 metres high, on the North Dorset Downs above the village of Melbury Abbas
  • Melbury House in Melbury Sampford near Evershot, Dorset, the seat of the Strangways family of Dorset since 1500
  • Melbury Osmond, village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England

Melbury Road, Holland Park, London

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Melbury Road includes a number of houses of historic interest, some former homes of the Holland Park Circle of Victorian era artists:

  • 8 Melbury Road, Queen Anne-style house by architect Richard Norman Shaw
  • 18 Melbury Road, former home and studio of the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt
  • 29 Melbury Road, or The Tower House, a late-Victorian townhouse built by the architect and designer William Burges as his home
  • 31 Melbury Road, or Woodland House, Queen Anne-style House by architect Richard Norman Shaw

Fiction

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  • Melbury, a fictional London suburb in Random Harvest, a novel by James Hilton
  • A small village in the novel The vanishing point, by Patricia Wentworth (1953)
  • Lord Melbury, a character in "A Touch of Class", a 1975 episode of BBC sitcom Fawlty Towers

See also

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