Chalbury


Chalbury is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies on the southern edge of Cranborne Chase within the East Dorset administrative district of the county, four miles north of Wimborne Minster and four miles west of Verwood. The village is sited on Chalbury Hill, the view from which has been described as "one of the most fascinating in the county". The Dorset broadcaster Ralph Wightman wrote of the hill and its view:
The village has a population of 140. Journalist Mary Frances Billington was born at Chalbury in 1862, while her father was the rector at All Saints' Church.

Fiction

In a 2004 adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio is given the title of the Earl of Chalbury.