Coordinates: 50°44'51?N 2°20'32?W? / ?50.7476, -2.3423
Puddletown is a village in Dorset, England, 5 miles east of Dorchester in the River Piddle valley. The village has a population of 1,177 (2001), of which 30.3% are retired. The village School, St. Mary's Middle School, Puddletown, Is named after the village church, St. Mary's church. It also has a pub, "The Blue Vinny".
It was featured in the novel Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, where it was renamed as the village of Weatherbury.
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