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 8 miles north of the county town Dorchester. It is sited in a small side-valley of the River Piddle at an altitude of 130 m and is surrounded by chalk hills which rise to 251 m at Ball Hill, a kilometre to the northeast, and 261 m 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.