Editing Netherbury (section)

==Facilities==
Along with domestic buildings, Netherbury village has a church, a village hall, and a play park. The church has a [[Normans|Norman]] font, a 15th-century altar tomb and a 16th-century pulpit.<ref name=WDDC>{{Cite book |title=West Dorset Holiday and Tourist Guide |author=West Dorset District Council |page=14 |date=c. 1982}}</ref> The hills surrounding the village show examples of [[Lynchet|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>{{Cite book |author=Roland Gant |title=Dorset Villages |publisher=Robert Hale Limited |year=1980 |pages=127–8 |ISBN=0 7091 8135 3}}</ref>

The novelist [[Mary Anna Needell]] lived in Netherbury with her family in the 1880s.<ref name="Ancestry site">[http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&rank=1&new=1&so=3&MSAV=0&msT=1&gss=ms_f-2_s&gsfn=John+Hodder&gsln=Needell&msbdy=1814&uidh=000 Retrieved 2 March 2015.]</ref> Kingsland House was the birthplace of Vice-Admiral [[Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet]] (1762–1814).