Bay Road, Gillingham, Dorset
- PROPERTY TYPE
Land
- SIZE
980,100 sq ft
91,054 sq m
Key features
- AUCTION Friday 14th November 2025 at 2.00pm
- at the Digby Hall, Sherborne and via Livestream
- 22.50 acres - Guide price £210,000
- Productive pasture land
- Quiet yet strategic position with several access points
- Shreen Water run through the land
Description
Auction - For Sale by Public Auction and via Livestream on Friday 14 November 2025 at 2.00pm at The Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AA. Register to bid in the room, online, by telephone or by proxy via our website.
Description - A productive block of pasture land which has been cut for silage and grazed by cattle and sheep. Shreen Water, a tributary of the River Stour, runs along the entire western boundary where the land adjoining is level free draining alluvium soil and it slopes gently up to Bowridge Hill where the soil becomes more loam and Kimmeridge clay. The soil should be high in organic matter having been grazed solely by sheep in recent years.
Situation - The land is located in a quiet yet strategic position on the northern outskirts of Gillingham, currently the fastest growing town in North Dorset. There are 2 access points off Bowridge Hill Lane into Lot A and 3 access points off Bay Road into Lot B.
The higher land enjoys far reaching westerly views over Gillingham town sweeping from Stourhead round to Bulbarrow Hill.
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Services - Natural water to both lots from Shreen Water.
Lot A is connected to Mains Water. The purchaser will need to install a sub-meter.
Designations - Three public footpaths cross the land, see sale plan.
The land has no planning, landscape or environmental designations or restrictions.
Fishing and sporting rights are included.
There will be an overage clause in the event planning consent is granted for development, excluding agricultural, equestrian and horticultural. The purchaser or successor will pay 20% of the increase in value for 20 years.
The Environment Agency have a recording station located on Lot A with a right of access
The land abutting Shreen Water is in Flood Zone 3
Tenure - Freehold
Local Authority - Dorset Council (Area North)
Solicitors - Trethowans LLP
Salisbury Office, SP1 3HP
Tel:
Email: Laura.
Viewing - Unaccompanied during daylight hours, with a set of sales particulars to hand, after first informing the agents.
Brochures
Land at Bowridge Brochure.pdfBay Road, Gillingham, Dorset
NEAREST STATIONS
Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode- Gillingham (Dorset) Station0.8 miles
About Symonds & Sampson, Sturminster Newton
Agriculture House, Market Place, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1AR
Notes
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