Chalbury

Chalbury

Chalbury is a village in east Dorset, England, four miles north of Wimborne Minster and four miles west of Verwood. The village has a population of 140 (2001).

Fiction

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

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Coordinates: 50°51′N 1°58′W / 50.85°N 1.967°W / 50.85; -1.967



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