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3 days ago · The history of settlement is ill-documented and largely unknown, but the pattern of field boundaries indicates slow expansion eastwards across the area of Kimmeridge Clay from a nucleus in the W. East Stour village, one of the Sture holdings of Domesday (V.C.H., Dorset iii, 82–3), was certainly the original settlement. Fields of irregular ...
4 days ago · Similar support groups have been set up in other parts of south-west England where beavers are recolonising, and the Dorset group is in close contact to learn from their experiences. The Group enables a coordinated approach to providing information and advice to communities where beavers are present, with licensed practitioners helping landowners and communities access the support they need ...
4 days ago · This parish, of some 3,000 acres and roughly square in outline, lies on the N.E. bank of the R. Stour; the land, entirely Chalk, rises from 80 ft. above O.D. at the river to 300 ft. in the N. The village is a moderately compact nucleated settlement on the broad riverterrace.
5 days ago · Wimborne Minster, the Church of St. Cuthberga. Wimborne, a royal residence, was the scene of the rising by the atheling Ethelwold in 900; (fn. 5) among the charges brought against him was the unlawful abduction of a nun, perhaps from the monastery.
4 days ago · Purbeck, district, administrative and historic county of Dorset, southern England, lying along the English Channel in the southeastern part of the county. It includes the nearly landlocked, shallow Poole Harbour on its northeastern border and derives its name from its southeasterly peninsula, the
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5 days ago · A Ley Line and Medieval Settlement in West Bay. Apparently a Great Ley Line begins at the West Bay lookout point, this being a medieval settlement at the top of West Cliff. Many people probably walk past or even through this old settlement on the South West Coast Path between West Bay and Eype without realising what it is.
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1 day ago · The A350 Shaston Road at Stourpaine, north of Blandford, will be shut between the hours of 8pm and 5am for workers to carry out asphalt preservation and lining improvements. The works are due to ...
