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census, the parish had a population of 858.

In 2008 it was voted Britain's "Most Desirable Village" by estate agent Savills. It is the location of the Cerne Abbas Giant, a chalk figure of a giant naked man on a hillside.

Etymology

River Cerne means "the stony stream", with the name Cerne being derived from the Primitive Welsh carn,

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