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and burial place for the Drax family, the functioning parish church being at Morden. Above the door of a small arched building nearby is an inscription, dated 1686, commemorating the meeting of the "Patriotic individuals who concerted the plan of the Revolution in 1688".
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and moved to neighbouring Dorset in about 1500, but soon died out in the male line. Female co-heiresses brought the Erle estates to various other families.
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dating from 1790, extended in 1839 into a five-storey building. It is situated on a hill southeast of the house
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The mediaeval church of the former parish of Charborough was situated to the immediate south-west of the
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in Dorset, England. It survives today as a hamlet, situated on an affluent of the
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building, but the listing relates only to its furnishings. Today it serves as a
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Charborough with its tower is the model for "Welland House" in the novel
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were largely abolished on the abolition of feudal tenure in the
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St Mary's Church, Charborough, behind which is seen part of
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of 1086. It was later acquired during the reign of Queen
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with the vista of a triumphal way running between them.
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Charborough House
parish
manor
River Stour
Wimborne Minster
Morden
manor house
Charborough House
manor house
50°46′49″N 2°06′27″W / 50.78018°N 2.10752°W / 50.78018; -2.10752
Gothic Revival
Thomas Erle Drax
St Mary
arms
grade II* listed
mausoleum

folly tower
50°46′39″N 2°06′06″W / 50.77753°N 2.10178°W / 50.77753; -2.10178
Two on a Tower
Thomas Hardy
Domesday Book
Elizabeth I
Sir Edward Ernle, 3rd Baronet
lord of the manor
Richard Drax
Conservative
Member of Parliament
South Dorset

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