Blashford
| Blashford | |||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 52 ′ N , 1 ° 47 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 5998 | ||
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| Post town | Ringwood | ||
| ZIP code section | BH24 | ||
| prefix | 01425 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South East England | ||
| Shire county | Hampshire | ||
| District | New Forest | ||
Blashford is a small hamlet in the district of New Forest in the county of Hampshire in southern England , east of Avon and about one and a half kilometers north of Ringwood . The hamlet belongs to the civil parish Ellingham Harbridge and Ibsley .
location
Blashford is about 150 kilometers (driving distance) southwest of London on the western edge of the former royal hunting grounds and today's New Forest National Park with the Blashford Lakes and the marshland of the Blashford Wet Meadows. These form the Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve . The A338 road runs from Bournemouth through Blashford to Salisbury.
history
The Hales family, which died out in 1806, had their residence here since around 1600.
In the 1930s, the family of the poet Francis MacNamara who lived here took in the writer Dylan Thomas . He married the daughter Caitlin here in 1937.
