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Over Compton is a village in north west Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, situated in the Yeo valley

River Yeo (South Somerset)

The River Yeo, also known as the River Ivel or River Gascoigne, is a tributary of the River Parrett in north Dorset and south Somerset, England....

2 miles east of Yeovil

Yeovil

Yeovil is a town and civil parish in south Somerset, England. The parish had a population of 27,949 at the 2001 census, although the wider urban area had a population of 42,140...

. The village has a population

Population

A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...

of 158 .

Compton House, formerly the home of the Goodden family, lies outside the village. St Michael's Church is on the estate. Cecil Goodden

Cecil Goodden

Cecil Phelips Goodden was an English cricketer, writer and British Army and Royal Marines officer. Goodden was a right-handed batsman...

was born in Compton House.

External links

Census data
Dorset OPC - Nether and Over Compton

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