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Melbury Abbas is a village and civil parish in north Dorset, England, 3 km SSW of the town of Shaftesbury, east of the A350 Shaftesbury to Blandford Forum road.

Melbury Abbas is on the western edge of Cranborne Chase in hilly terrain.

In its history the village has been involved in the trade of plated buckles and horn buttons, and the manufacture of dowlas. During the 19th century, the village was home to the Dorset Ooser, a wooden mask brought out during "Rough Music" ceremonies.

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Merley First School serves Merley and Oakley and is one of the founding members of the Wimborne Academy Trust. The private Canford School is also located nearby at Canford Magna.

There are a number of community facilities within the village, including an infants' school (Milborne St Andrew First School), a public house (the Royal Oak), a parish church (Church of England, dedicated to St Andrew and founded in 1069), and a sports club and pavilion, home of the Milborne Sports Football Club which was nominated Dorset FA Charter Club of the Year in 2008. Milborne Sports Football Club also supports two youth teams. In May 2016 Milborne St Andrew (under 11) came second in the Dorset Youth League Cup.

Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman, (1920 1997), daughter of Edward Digby, 11th Baron Digby, was raised at the manor house from 1920 to 1938, and lived there before her marriage to Randolph Churchill in 1939.

The development of Moordown continued with the selling-off of Burt's Farm on the east side of Wimborne Road, around 1911; the result was "the Mayfield Park Estate", whose road names commemorated the coronation of George V (hence King Edward Avenue, King George Avenue and Queen Mary Avenue). That said, Coronation Avenue, laid out in 1912, was not developed for housing until the 1920s, due to the exigencies of the First World War and the subsequent labour shortage. Further land sales resulted in parades of shops at Moordown, including Grand Parade, put up in 1924, and the art deco-style Mayfield Park Buildings, which arrived in 1933. An additional interwar attraction was The Moderne Cinema, which opened in 1935. This doubled up as a venue for children's birthday parties during the Second World War, "and was renowned for being able to lay on jellies even during the height of the rationing".

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