Plush, Dorset
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 north of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a small side-valley of the River Piddle at an altitude of and is surrounded by chalk hills which rise to at Ball Hill, a kilometre to the northeast, and 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.
