Plush, Dorset

{{Short description|Village in England}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2014}}

{{Use British English|date=March 2014}}

{{Infobox UK place

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|static_image_caption = The Brace Of Pheasants public house, Plush

|country = England

|official_name = Plush

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|map_type = Dorset

|unitary_england = Dorset

|lieutenancy_england = Dorset

|region = South West England

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Plush is a small village in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the civil parish of Piddletrenthide in the west of the county, and is approximately {{convert|8|miles|km}} north of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a small side-valley of the River Piddle at an altitude of {{convert|130|m|ft}} and is surrounded by chalk hills which rise to {{convert|251|m|ft}} at Ball Hill, a kilometre to the northeast, and {{convert|261|m|ft}} at Lyscombe Hill, 2½ kilometres to the east.

Plush consists of a few thatched cottages, a public house, a Regency manor house and a small church dedicated to St John the Baptist; the church was designed in 1848 by Benjamin Ferrey, a Gothic Revival architect and close friend of Pugin.Dorset: The Buildings of England by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner. Page 317. Published by Penguin Books 1972. Reprinted 1975. {{ISBN|0-14-071044-2}}