Henbury, Dorset

Henbury
Henbury
	Henbury Cottages on the A31
	Henbury Location within Dorset
OS grid reference	SY960985
Civil parish	Sturminster Marshall;
District	East Dorset;
Shire county	Dorset;
Region	South West;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WIMBORNE
Postcode district	BH21
Dialling code	01258
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset and Wiltshire
Ambulance	South Western
UK Parliament	North Dorset;
	List of places UK England Dorset 50°47′13″N 2°03′28″W / 50.78689°N 2.05771°W

Henbury is a hamlet in the civil parish of Sturminster Marshall in Dorset, England. It lies on the A31 road.

Henbury House is a classical Georgian house built in 1770.^[1] In the 19th century the estate was held by the Parke family. In the 1870s two members of the family emigrated to Australia and founded Henbury Station,^[2] a cattle station some 140 km south of Alice Springs, near where the Henbury Crater was discovered in 1899.

References

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[1] East Dorset County Council: Areas of Great Landscape Vale (June 1997)

[2] Peter Forrest, Henbury, in the Centralian Advocate, 1984

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