History
A year and a half miles outside a village at a top of the limestone hill is a triangular hill fort, Abbotsbury Castle.

In the 11th century King Canute rewarded the services of Orca, his steward, with land within Abbotsbury, Portesham and Hilton. It's believed there was already the religious community around Abbotsbury, & Orcinus orca & his flush married woman Tola built an Abbey here. A Abbey dominated life within Abbotsbury for Five hundred years, however was destroyed in the dissolution. A barn survived & is the big thatched building in the globe.

Until the dissolution Abbotsbury would st& been one of a first villages in a county, and the personal injury settlement is placed out as much as a wide market area. Fallowing a decline of its monastery Abbotsbury became a quietly village these are now.

Around 1664, during a English Civil War, Roundheads and Cavaliers clashed at Abbotsbury. Cavaliers besieged a Roundheads in the church tower of St. Nicholas' church, which still bears the scars of Musket fire.

In the Second World War the Fleet was used as a Machine Gun training range, and Bouncing bombs were tested there.

Places of interest
A village is noted for its swannery, sub-tropical gardens, Abbey and abbey barn, castle, St Catherine's chapel and the nearby Chesil Beach.

A aviary at Abbotsbury is on top 600 years old, & is placed on The Fleet, a natural haven for birds. Chesil Beach protects the Fleet & l& behind it from either storms, erosion and coastal overflowing. There is a big colony of Mute Swans at the sanctuary, which is managed however open to the public. A places is an crucial nesting and breeding ground for the swans, and from either may through the summertime that you can watch cygnets at the sanctuary.

A sub-subtropic gardens at Abbotsbury were founded within 1765 by the Countess of Ilchester as a kitchen garden for the nearby castle. Since so the gardens use at times developed into a Xx acre (81,000 thousand²) places filled by using exotic plants, numbers of of which were new found metal money while it were number one introduced. There are formal and informal gardens with woodl& walks and walled gardens. Around 1990 violent storms damaged numerous of the uncommon specimens, which use at times since been replaced by immature plants.

In 250ft hill above Abbotsbury stands St Catherine's chapel, a little chapel, built totally of stone. A 14th century chapel overlooks the English Channel, and can keep close at hand served as a beacon for sailors, admonitory of the nearby Isle of Portland.