Long Bredy is a village in west Dorset, England, situated in a small valley seven miles west of Dorchester. Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A mile is a unit of Length, usually used to measure Distance, in a number of different systems including Imperial units United States Dorchester is a Market town in southern central Dorset, England, on the River Frome at the junction of the A35 and A37 The village has a population of 202 (2001). In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. The village has some notable history, being located near the strategic chalk hills it has some Iron Age and Roman history, including a stone circle, known as the Grey Mare and her Colts, and a burial chamber. Chalk (ʧɔːk is a soft white porous Sedimentary rock, a form of Limestone composed of the Mineral Calcite. This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age for the mythological Iron Age see Ages of Man. Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410 A stone circle is an ancient monument Such a monument is not always precisely circular and often forms an ellipse or a setting of four stones laid on an arc of a circle A colt is a young Male Horse, under the age of four However in olden days the word 'colt' referred to any young or infant horse regardless of gender The village is thought to have been established somewhen around the 9th century, and was mentioned in the Domesday Book. The 9th century is the period from 801 to 900 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian / Common Era. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey To the east of the village is Kingston Russell house, a 17th century mansion. Kingston Russell is a large Mansion house and estate near Long Bredy in Dorset, England, west of Dorchester. As a means of recording the passage of Time, the 17th Century was that Century which lasted from 1601 - 1700 in the Gregorian calendar