# Melbury Bubb

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Hamlet in Dorset, England

Human settlement in England

Melbury Bubb Parish church of St Mary Melbury Bubb Location within Dorset Population 40 [1] OS grid reference ST596065 Unitary authority Dorset Ceremonial county Dorset Region South West Country England Sovereign state United Kingdom Police Dorset Fire Dorset and Wiltshire Ambulance South Western List of places UK England Dorset 50°51′26″N 2°34′31″W / 50.8571°N 2.5753°W / 50.8571; -2.5753

Bubb Down Hill (centre left) seen from [Batcombe Hill](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batcombe_Hill&action=edit&redlink=1)

**Melbury Bubb** is a small village and [civil parish](/source/Civil_parishes_in_England) in the [county](/source/English_county) of [Dorset](/source/Dorset) in [South West England](/source/South_West_England), situated approximately 7 miles (11 km) south of the town of [Sherborne](/source/Sherborne). It is sited on [Cornbrash](/source/Cornbrash) limestone[2] beneath the [chalk](/source/Chalk) hills of the [Dorset Downs](/source/Dorset_Downs). The [A37 trunk road](/source/A37_road) between [Dorchester](/source/Dorchester%2C_Dorset) and [Bristol](/source/Bristol) passes about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) to the west, on the other side of Bubb Down Hill. This hill used to be the site of a [beacon](/source/Beacon). The first half of the village name derives from *maele* and *burh*—[Old English](/source/Old_English) for "multi-coloured" and "fortified place"—and the second half is a manorial name which derives either from a [Saxon](/source/Anglo-Saxons) resident named 'Bubba' or from [medieval](/source/Middle_Ages) lords of the manor.[3] [Dorset County Council](/source/Dorset_County_Council)'s latest (2013) estimate of the parish population is 40.[1]

The parish church of St Mary has a 15th-century tower but the rest of the building was largely rebuilt in a 19th-century [restoration](/source/Victorian_restoration). Its [font](/source/Baptismal_font) however is carved out of the column of an upturned Saxon cross; it is elaborately carved, although the carvings are upside-down.[3][4] Families were often noted as owners in books, for instance: the Blain family recently sold the property, despite occupying it for just shy of 100 years.

## Notes

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-dcc_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-dcc_1-1) ["Parish Population Data"](https://web.archive.org/web/20141102112421/https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882). [Dorset County Council](/source/Dorset_County_Council). 20 January 2015. Archived from [the original](https://www.dorsetforyou.com/344882) on 2 November 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Ralph Wightman](/source/Ralph_Wightman) (1983). *Portrait of Dorset* (4 ed.). Robert Hale Ltd. p. 18. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0 7090 0844 9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0_7090_0844_9).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-opc_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-opc_3-1) ["Melbury Bubb"](http://www.opcdorset.org/MelburyBubbFiles/MelburyBubb.htm). Dorset OPC Project. Retrieved 7 March 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Roland Gant (1980). *Dorset Villages*. Robert Hale Ltd. p. 69. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0 7091 8135 3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0_7091_8135_3).

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