Netherbury
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox UK place Netherbury is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the Dorset Council administrative area, by the small River Brit, Template:Convert south of Beaminster and Template:Convert north of Bridport. The A3066 road connecting those towns lies 0.5 miles to the east.
PopulationEdit
In the 2011 census the parish, including the villages of Melplash and Salway Ash, and the small settlements of Atrim, Oxbridge, Waytown, North and South Bowood, Wooth, Silkhay, Mangerton, Whitecross, Filford, Dottery, Hincknowle and Loscombe, had a population of 1,314.<ref name=ons/> Netherbury is within an electoral ward that bears its name and stretches south to the edge of Bridport. The ward population was 2,080.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
FacilitiesEdit
Along with domestic buildings, Netherbury village has a church, a village hall, and a play park. The church has a Norman font, a 15th-century altar tomb and a 16th-century pulpit.<ref name=WDDC>Template:Cite book</ref> The hills surrounding the village show examples of strip lynchets.<ref name=WDDC/>
The River Brit used to serve several mills to process the flax used in Bridport's rope-making industry. In Netherbury, the river is crossed by a 17th-century bridge with three dissimilar arches: a larger, round eastern arch accommodated the millrace.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The novelist Mary Anna Needell lived in Netherbury with her family in the 1880s.<ref name="Ancestry site">Retrieved 2 March 2015.</ref> Kingsland House was the birthplace of Vice-Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet (1762–1814).