Bettiscombe and Pilsdon
About our ParishPilsdon nestles below Pilsdon Pen. The Pen, the highest hill fort in Dorset, was excavated in the 1960s, and found to contain late Iron Age huts. Views from its summit encompass many miles of beautiful West Dorset. It is in the care of the National Trust and open at all reasonable times. The settlement of Pilsdon has the narrowest possible approach roads between high hedges down the side of the Marshwood Vale. This is where a Royalist judge, Sir Hugh Wyndham, lived. At the battle of Worcester, the future King Charles II fled from the field and his pursuers came to this house thinking he was hiding there. They ransacked it as Sir Hugh fumed and raged in the Hall. Intelligence was at fault, the prince being at Sir Hugh's nephew's house at Trent.
Pilsdon Community Newsletter
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Pilsdon Manor,
Pilsdon, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5NZ
Please note that we cannot answer any queries about Bettiscombe.
Tel: 01308 868308
Email: pilsdon@btconnect.com
For Genealogical Enquiries the local Diocesan Record Office is:
Bridport Road, Dorchester.
For Parish enquiries please contact:
See
www.pilsdon.org.uk
Pilsdon Manor,
Pilsdon, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 5NZ
Reg Charity: 261139
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